Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Robert Gates? How is this "Change"?

How exactly does keeping the executor of the "surge" amount to "change." Even Rumsfeld by the time he was shit-canned had come to accept the idea that the "wise men" of the Iraq Study Group were right and the the US would have to start drawing down its force levels in Iraq (see Gardner, "Mr. Rumsfeld's War" in Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam: Or, How not to learn from the past (ed) Gardner and Young).

It is now abundantly clear that "change" was merely a vacuous slogan which the Power Elite used to engineer continuity. Obama is a pawn of the vested interests.

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