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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe most serious "weakness" of Obama's foreign policy,
shielding the previous administration from being held accountable for their crimes and abuses. (and then, of course, continuing many of those policies)
For McCain and other warmongers who accuse Obama for being "weak" for not pushing for war, NO, weakness is not coming clean with Bush/Cheney, PNAC and the NeoCons.
The Wielding Truth
(11,415 posts)snappyturtle
(14,656 posts)foreign policy and Bush's. I'm sure someone can set me straight on this.
Maedhros
(10,007 posts)http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/world-report/2012/11/09/obamas-re-election-means-fourth-term-of-bush-terrorism-policies
http://sites.middlebury.edu/presidentialpower/2011/12/12/why-obama-continues-bushs-foreign-policy/
http://www.salon.com/2013/01/09/5_ways_obama_has_doubled_down_on_george_w_bushs_policies/
snappyturtle
(14,656 posts)Maedhros
(10,007 posts)An implementation of the Rumsfeld Doctrine.
snappyturtle
(14,656 posts)snappyturtle
(14,656 posts)we have to cut services here in the U.S. with millions going abroad globally. I'm so cynical these days. I would guess Africa is VERY rich in resources....just sayin'. imho
Autumn
(45,120 posts)As a constitutional scholar, as a Democrat that should have been on his must do list.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)heck, we even funded Shabaab for a while (then pulled the rug out from under them)--Libya, Syria, Baluchistan, Honduras, Ukraine, Venezuela (since Latin America's full of ultraconservative "student unions" that are just on-campus enforcers for the FFAA)
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