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In the spirit of fairness, I should note that some of Obama’s other advisors on foreign policy are catching flack from the left for having been insufficiently interventionist in Rwanda and Bosnia (and “alarmingly” so). Now that Samantha Power is fortunately out of the campaign, this arguably might make Obama’s foreign policy team somewhat less appalling. Of course, it is the candidate people are electing, and this reminder about what some of his advisors did (or, more importantly, didn’t) do thirteen or fourteen years ago doesn’t really change my assessment of his views. It’s a bit like finding out that Scowcroft is on board with McCain: it’s slightly reassuring that there is at least one voice of reason in the cacophony of madness, but only slightly.
Filed under: foreign policy, politics
But Power was an “unpaid advisor” to Obama, so in practical terms I’m not sure what her resignation actually means. I presume both have cell phones and email, and one can and will call the other as and when needed.
On the other hand, McCain has both Scowcroft and Kissinger and Bill Kristol, so there you go.
They are all terrible – all three of them are dyed in the wool interventionists, going abroad looking for dragons to slay.
The only difference is the wars and interventions they will get us into – McCain more likely to go after Iran and the Dems more likely to favor “humanitarian interventions” like Sudan or Myanmar.
They may each have other pluses and minuses when it comes to domestic policy or personality, but they are all “imperialists”.