Obama’s “seamless transition” to endless war

[IndianaGreen]

Obama’s “seamless transition” to endless war

18 November 2008

President-elect Barack Obama appeared Sunday on the CBS program “60 Minutes” for his first televised interview since his November 4 election victory.

He covered a wide range of subjects with a lack of specificity and a placid tone that suggested someone who had read through stacks of briefing books, but had few defined positions of his own and was above all anxious to offend no one.

When asked what he had been “concentrating on” in the past week, however, his answer was unhesitating: “Number one, I think it’s important to get a national security team in place because transition periods are potentially times of vulnerability to a terrorist attack. We want to make sure that there is as seamless a transition on national security as possible.”

A “seamless transition on national security”; the phrase is well worth pondering, given the strategy and policy pursued by the administration that will be handing over power to an incoming Obama administration.

The Bush administration enunciated a clear national security policy that became known as the Bush Doctrine. Essentially, it proclaimed the “right” of the US government to attack preemptively any country it believes might pose a military threat to the United States. Underlying this formally stated policy of aggressive war lay the determination of the US ruling elite to advance its monopolization of wealth and power through war abroad and repression at home.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/nov2008/pers-n18.shtml

[BlooInBloo]

1. Pathetic concern trolls.

[IndianaGreen]

4. We were attacked for saying there were no WMDs in Iraq

and for opposing PATRIOT, warrantless searches, Guantanamo.

Obama promised to restore habeas corpus, and myself and others like me will hold him to that promise.

[patrice]

2. I don't share you dark suspicions of Obama, but I DO wonder if it will ever be possible to "go back"

and I don't think so.

[Palladin]

3. The pick of

Rahm Emanuel to be major-domo just about says it all.

[stillcool]

5. says what..

specifically about foreign policy?

[Tutonic]

6. That the man is not an original thinker. Stealing staff and thoughts

from Bill and Hillary.

[Seldona]

7. “Seamless transition on national security” = "endless war?"

Bit of a stretch, no?