When candidate Obama selected Samantha Power to be his foreign policy
adviser, this was a clear signal that he endorsed the idea of liberal
imperialist intervention that she embodied. In contrast to Bush’s
“failed” interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan, Power stood for a more
adroit application of imperial power. Like Obama, she thought that the
invasion of Iraq was ill-advised but did little to offer resistance to
it. Indeed, the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy that she has long
been associated with have collaborated with the Pentagon in figuring out
how to deploy anthropologists and other academic experts into the
battlefield in order to figure out how to deal with restive native
populations.
Among the first proponents of liberal imperialist intervention, best
known as the ‘decent left’ in Great Britain, to get on the Obama
bandwagon was Marc Cooper, an enemy of the Latin American revolution who
has labored mightily on behalf of outfits like the National Endowment
for Democracy bent on subverting genuine democracy in Venezuela and
elsewhere.
The British “decent left” has also shifted its allegiance from the
Republican Party to Obama’s muscular liberalism. His more obnoxious
supporters can be found at “Harry’s Place”, a blog infected with hatred
for political Islam and the radical left. One of them, a Likudist who
goes by David T., recently chided Alice Walker in an entry titled
"Nutters: 'We’re Already Disappointed by Obama' for her temerity in stating:
"Each time Mr Obama has said 'we will kill' Osama bin Laden I have felt
a testing of my confidence in his moral leadership. And I support him,
and demonstrated that support, to the very limits of my finances and my
strength. Could it be that, like millions of children around the globe,
who are taught 'Thou shalt not kill', I am reacting with disappointment
and shock to someone blatantly declaring their intention to kill a
specific person?"
One can understand why David T. would be upset by Alice Walker given his
complaint on October 30th: “I’m sorry, but I have now completely lost
faith in this Government’s ability to counter the Islamism in the United
Kingdom.”
full:
http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2008/11/11/obama-wins-over-the-decent-left/
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