February 06, 2008
Axis of Good...
....President McCain will inherit the Axis of Good that W forged--with the particularly important additions being India, Indonesia, Brazil, France (at least momentarily), Canada, and Germany. It's only Bush Derangement Syndrome that prevents foreign policy experts from seeing that. Formalizing the League would be a useful but unnecessary step...
It probably doesn't matter, as far as the Global War on Terror is concerned, who gets elected. At least for the big picture. Bush is similar to Truman, whose vision crated our template for fighting the Cold War. Truman was enormously unpopular, but there was not a chance that his successors would repudiate his policy.
The Bush Doctrine will be America's doctrine now. All the current candidates appear to be pygmies compared to him, and so not have the capacity to formulate a new strategic doctrine, even if one were possible.
Posted by John Weidner at February 6, 2008 01:08 PMYou're more optimistic than I am today (fancy that!), but I sure hope you're right...Obama is no Eisenhower - but hope does spring eternal...
Well, these things have a lot of momentum. If a President Obama wanted to change the whole direction we are moving in, he would have to fill his administration with inexperienced ideologues, which would be very unpopular and in itself consume a lot of his political capital. And would probably lead to a Republican victory in 2012.
(And which also destroy the stupid lie that the Bush Administration is a bunch of "far-right extremists.")
Posted by: John Weidner at February 7, 2008 07:49 AMI think Obama will either bring the troops home precipitously or break his promise to the moonbats who elected him. Liar or coward--your pick.
Posted by: miriam at February 8, 2008 07:14 PMYou are giving them too much credit for brains and character. President Obama will muddle along in a fog, and do nothing decisive, because he has no ideas or principles.
And the moonbats will discover that with a Dem in the White House things feel rather different, and their protests aren't as much fun anymore. And that they don't have much leverage once the primaries are over.
Posted by: John Weidner at February 8, 2008 07:52 PM
