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Obama's Advisers Push British Foreign Policy of Wars

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Obama's Advisers Push British Foreign Policy of Wars, Invasions Against Eurasia: Is That His Policy?

May 19, 2008 (LPAC)--Barack Obama's top foreign policy advisers are working hand-in-glove with leading neocons - and McCain advisers - on a campaign to turn world power over to the British Empire under the name of a "Concert of Democracies," or a "League of Democracies." The policy they advocate, calling for multiple new British-U.S.-led invasions of countries in Africa and Asia, is the H.G. Wellsian British imperialist policy touted by Prime Minister Tony Blair beginning with his 1999 University of Chicago speech. Is this Obama's foreign policy?

Obama foreign policy leaders Ivo Daalder of the Brookings Institute, and Anthony Lake--co-chairman with George Shultz of the Princeton Project on National Security--are leaders of the British drive to place world government in the hands of this new imperial military League. As the Lake/Shultz Princeton Project concluded in their final report, the purpose of their Concert of Democracies would be "to work within existing global institutions such as the United Nations; but in the event that those fail, to provide a framework for organizing and legitimizing international interventions, including the use of military force."

"The Next Intervention": Under this headline, Obama adviser Daalder co-authored a call for this Concert of Nations with arch neocon Robert Kagan in the Washington Post on August 6, 2007. They were already working for Obama and McCain, respectively.

Jackson Diehl, the deputy editor of the Washington Post, wrote a column today in the Post promoting this Concert of Democracies, arguing that the "non-democracies" China and Russia have "stopped the Security Council from discussing a humanitarian intervention to rescue the 1.5 million Burmese endangered by the criminal neglect of their government following a cyclone,... blocked strong sanctions against Iran... and an attempted UN intervention in Darfur." The new President - either McCain or Obama, says Diehl, without a mention of Hillary Clinton - will be unable to use unilateral power, since it was discredited by George Bush, nor to count on the impotent UN. Diehl quotes Obama's adviser Lake: "Crisis in Iran, North Korea, Iraq and Darfur, not to mention the pressing need for more efficient peacekeeping operations, the rising temperatures of our seas, and multiple other transnational threats, demonstrate not only the limits of American unilateral power, but also the inability of international institutions designed in the middle of the 20th century to cope with problems of the 21st."

That's why McCain is backing the League of Democracies, says Diehl, and Obama's advisers agree.

This is precisely what the Russians, the Chinese and the Indians see clearly as the threat from the British Empire, wiping out the last of the FDR tradition in the U.S. - which is why they have determined to fight, together.

The question is: where does Obama stand? LPAC will be seeking an official answer.


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Oh my god, The Queen of England and Henry Kissinger conspiracy to rule the world. UFO has hijacked the world government. Credit cards are bad for you. Please Lyndon help me. Aluminum. Buy Aluminum

Larouche rulzzz! Hah.

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Nailed it, Economides!

Is there a special term for larouche trolls?
Or a special circle of hell?

Guys, we're all going to have to watch out for this in an Obama administration. The Democratic foreign policy world is full of crazies like Anne Marie Alughter, Ivo Daalder and Rachel Kleinfeld -- militarists for democracy who show up at TPM Cafe from time to time, get schooled by the commenters, and leave. They're all angling for jobs in a Democratic administration. We need to object to them getting any posts that require senate confirmation. We don't want these people anywhere near policy.

To some observers it may seem astonishing that neither the two parties that have the second-last say about whom is to become elected head of state and government, nor the candidates themselves, have presented their foreign policies.

Still half a year before the election is taking place, it's possible to ask: "Is this Obama's foreign policy?"

In other words: One must question whether it will do much difference.

On the other hand, what possibly will make difference, and that may take a decade or more, is if the American democracy is restored, rethought and improved. If so, the important thing is not who gets elected this year, but what happends with this movement within the Democratic Party that has propelled Obama to the candidacy. How can it adjust to the post-election reality?

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I miss the link to the source.

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This doesn't strike me at all as 'interventionist' in the sense the author fears. It looks more like a more formalized effort to address international crises the way Bush SR and Clinton quasi-tried to do.

Crises will happen - the US cannot simply 'bring the troops home' and ignore the rest of the world. While some individuals may have principled stands against the use of military force, no responsible government leader can. There are times when a military response is necessary and working WITH the democracies of the world makes it likely that those times will be fewer than otherwise.

Perhaps reassurances to China and Russia that the goals or efforts are not likely to undermine their security should be more forthcoming... but this is not indicative of an interventionist military policy anything like what we have been experiencing.

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