[Peace-discuss] Why Obama won't say what he believes...

[C. G. Estabrook]

ewj at pigs.ag wrote:
> The most disturbing thing I have seen is that neocon Bloody Bill Kristol likes Obama.

Clever neocons have understood for a long time that Obama is far closer to their 
positions than some of his liberal supporters believe: see "Obama the 
Interventionist," by Robert Kagan in the Washington Post, Sunday, April 29, 2007 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/27/AR2007042702027.html>.

Kagan is probably the leading intellectual among the neocons right now.  He has 
the right education -- Yale and the ridiculous Kennedy School of Government at 
Harvard (home of Obama adviser Samantha Power).  A speechwriter in the Reagan 
administration (where the Bush administration came from), Kagan is a member of 
the Council on Foreign Relations, a co-founder of the Project for the New 
American Century, and one of the signers of the January 26, 1998, "PNAC Letter" 
sent to President Clinton, promoting regime change in Iraq. His wife is the 
current U.S. ambassador to NATO.

He's McCain's principal foreign policy advisor and the author of the neocon book 
du jour, "The Return of History and the End of Dreams" (2008), which turns up in 
McCain's speeches.  (The key phrase is "League of Democracies"  -- i.e., 
bringing back the Cold War for propaganda purposes.)  As the article shows, 
Kagan likes Obama too.  --CGE