Robert Fisk: Obama is a disaster
December 15, 2009 – 1:25 am by JohnBritish Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk says Obama’s foreign policy is a disaster potentially worse than Bush’s, and that it is incomprehensible why Obama has taken on the Afghan war with such enthusiasm. I think it’s safe to say that the libertarian community in general predicted his continuation of neoconservative, interventionist foreign policy. For instance, in January I wrote,
…my impression is that he plans to increase American military presence in Afghanistan while doing nothing close to giving up or withdrawing in Iraq. This is a terrible foreign policy scarcely different from the neoconservative one. I hardly see how he could expect to gain or maintain much power in our Imperial Federal Government without those positions, though. I think there will be a significant American military presence in both Afghanistan and Iraq on the last day of Obama’s presidency, as will there be in most other countries where the Imperial Federal Government has military bases and personnel. I won’t be surprised if the numbers in Iraq and Afghanistan are almost as high as they are today.
I stand by those predictions, as Robert Fisk might.
