“Obama has sold the world on the idea that he’s pushing for peace”
Published: 29 October, 2009, 23:10
Edited: 01 November, 2009, 20:13
What Barack Obama has done is an incredible advertising campaign, David Swanson, an American writer and journalist, told RT.
“He has sold the world on the idea that he’s pushing for peace, when we have a bigger military budget now than ever with Bush and Cheney, more troops in the field in Afghanistan and Iraq combined than ever with Bush and Cheney, more bases in more countries than the literal empire of bases around the world than ever with Bush and Cheney,” David Swanson said.
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I know that our media has been failing us. I just discovered this website. What America needs now is news exactly like this, news that is the truth. Other countries can't blame the people for this. The corruption level in our goverment dates back many of years along with the goverment. JFK was killed for almost reveling this as plee'ed in his last speech. I DONT KNOW WHY THERE ARENT ANY AMERICANS HERE.......
I sympathies with the two previous comments; leadership in several countries is very sad (example: my own France with that Sarkonaparte) As I explained, right from the beginning Obama was the perfect pawn to cover-up the US financial "fiasco". His election was a well planned hollywoodian super-production, which I called in many comments to RTTV: the Obama-Circus-show. It went on a Worldwide tour and everybody applauded (including Russia). The ultimate consecration was the Nobel peace price given by a capitalist institution (What a joke). Sorry Future Generations: I can explain but nobody does anything about it ! Best Regards...Jean-Claude Meslin
Having just witnessed Obamas 'right hand woman' Clinton (on live TV from Israel) clearly backtracking on the US opposition to continued expansion of Israeli 'settlements', I no longer belive that Obama is serious about peace in the middle east. Either that or Obama is not able to, or not willing to, pull all the levers he has at his disposal. Also, using thinly veiled threats with Iran to get them to agree to what the US has already decided is not the sort of diplomacy that I would expect from a clearly intelligent and educated leader. The British used to do this in their days of empire - either cave in and agree with us now, or hold out and we will send in the gunboats and show you the power of our machine guns - in which event you will be made to agree with us. It appears that despite whatever good intentions Obama may have had, he has allowed himself to be, or has been pushed, down the old administrations foreign policy road. Very, Very, dissapointing.