MSNBC as State-Controlled Media: Maddow interviews Bacevich

If I were Obama I would take great comfort in having hope fiends like Rachel Maddow in the Liberal media. Never put it past an Obama supporter to give him credit for something he hasn't done yet (all the while overlooking what he is actually doing and has done...)

'The Rachel Maddow Show' for Monday, August 2nd, 2010

"MADDOW: Do you think there‘s really no difference between Democrats and Republicans on the biggest most important issues in national security?

BACEVICH: The differences are far smaller than one would conclude from all of the rhetoric and the hype. I‘ve long believed that if you‘re looking for the big truths about American politics, about the way Washington works, you don‘t look at the differences between the Republicans and the Democrats. You look for the continuities. ...

MADDOW: But the difference that I see between theoretical McCain presidency and the actual Obama presidency in Afghanistan is that withdrawal deadline. Now, the administration is taking great pains to make that withdrawal deadline next summer seem very squishy.

And if there is no withdrawal, then, I‘d say you‘re right. But if there is withdrawal, if they really do wind that war down and end it and don‘t let it go on permanently, isn‘t that a potential crack in the consensus? Is it a break in permanent war, sort of an opportunity to question that as a default path? "