(2008-09-17) Lind Obama War Policies

William Lind thinks Barack Obama's policies re Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran are all wrong, comparable to Bush/Mc Cain on the War On Iraq. Here we see the central reality of American politics shining through the smoke and mirrors. America has a One Party System. That party is the Establishment Party, and its internal disagreements are minor. Both Mc Cain and Obama are Establishment Party candidates. They agree America must be a world-controlling empire. Both men are Wilsonians, believing we must re-make other countries and cultures in our own image. Neither man conceives any real limits, political, financial, military or moral, on American power. Mc Cain and Obama vie only in determining which can drink more deeply from the poisoned well of hubris, around which, unremarked, lie the bones of every previous world power.