Obama Team Tilts Toward Gates
Beyond keeping Gates, Obama appears headed toward staffing much of his foreign policy team with people tied to the Clinton administration, including many who were strong supporters of the Iraq War, most notably Sen. Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. [See Jeremy Scahill’s “This Is Change?”]
That trend has raised concerns among Obama supporters who had hoped Obama meant what he said when he declared during the campaign that “I don’t ...
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Gates is the servant of the military-industrial complex. Preposterous armaments programs based on rivalry with a hostile major power armed to the teeth with nuclear weapons continue even though most of the enemies are either on foot, on the backs of various animals, or in jeeps. This is obviously insane.