Obama promised to reduce our troop commitment in Iraq.
And he did just that – down to 50,000 “non-combat” military personnel in Iraq from a high of about 180,000. Just as he promised. It was great how Obama managed to pull off this major troop reduction without a boatload of push back from the owners of our militarized economy.
But here’s the cute little twist: all Obama really did was pour water from one glass (Iraq) into another glass (Afghanistan).
That’s why the war-mongers aren’t raising hell, and that is why devout peaceniks such as Sanders, Leahy and Welch will still happily bring home the war pig bacon and lay claim to helping the economy, and that is why I’m not the least bit impressed with Obama’s military moves and that is why I’ll still not be supporting Obama on a political level.
The water levels are the same – the glasses are just different.
We’ve got to support ideas and principles, and point out the inconsistencies in the war-mongers’ stories.
That will take a group effort to agree on fundamental truths, and repeat them endlessly, until people remember them.
I guess this is like the sound of one hand clapping, Rama–I mean, are the glasses half full or half empty? If only we could ask the dead.