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“Obama administration does not have a large vision of the world”
Published: 28 June, 2010, 11:00
Edited: 29 June, 2010, 01:19
Paratroopers in the 4th Brigade of the US Army's 82nd Airborne Division patrol through a busy market street as a man watches June 26, 2010 in downtown Herat, Afghanistan
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Tom Engelhardt, author of “The American Way of War” says Barack Obama remains on an expansionist trajectory with “the War on Terror” because he does not have “a large vision of how the world works.”
June has already turned into the deadliest month for NATO forces in Afghanistan, with nearly a hundred soldiers killed. More than half of them were Americans, and the campaign started by George W. Bush nine years ago is now Barack Obama's war.
“Barack Obama is seemingly beginning to wind down the Iraq war, but in the service of winding up the Afghan war,” says Engelhardt.
The roots of American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan lie in the 1990s, he believes, and the US is repeating the mistakes of the Soviet Union.
“Left with no Cold War, no enemy in the world, [the US administration] made the same decision that [the] Russians made and put their money into the Pentagon, into the military-industrial complex – with the same things happening: national debt growing, budget deficit rising, infrastructure crumbling, etc.,” the author told RT.
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Neither does Obama have even a tiny "vision of how the world works". The world is slowing realizing what many Americans have know for a long time: that Obama is just an ordinary south Chicago street "organizer" and nothing more. Obama has no vision, no ideas, nor does he have any clue as to what it means to be the president of the United States. He loves to dribble the basketball, grin, and take trips on Air Force One. Obama is the ultimate joke on the people who reelected Bush in 2004.
It is sad to see just how far this once great nation has strayed from the path its Founding Fathers laid for it to follow. Fortunatly not all the people who live in the US are ignorant of the world, nor greedy, nor self interested. As long as there are sufficient numbers of these people still in positions of influence the US still has time to save itself by taking a new path. The current short term focus on money, oil, and global military domination will have to shift. Neither the US nor the world can afford to maintain it.