Comments on: Obama And The Antiwar Right http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/2008/02/22/obama-and-the-antiwar-right/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=obama-and-the-antiwar-right n. the principle of good order<br /><br /> "Observe the strange inversion of all order and sense! Dignity debased; how vilely is the function of a consul prostituted!" ~The Craftsman Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:25:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Eunomia » Beware http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/2008/02/22/obama-and-the-antiwar-right/comment-page-1/#comment-9136 Eunomia » Beware Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:56:41 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2008/02/22/obama-and-the-antiwar-right/#comment-9136 [...] Obama And The Antiwar Right  4 adam, davegnyc, davegnyc [...] [...] [...] Obama And The Antiwar Right  4 adam, davegnyc, davegnyc [...] [...]

]]> By: adam http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/2008/02/22/obama-and-the-antiwar-right/comment-page-1/#comment-9122 adam Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:40:41 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2008/02/22/obama-and-the-antiwar-right/#comment-9122 "More worrying to me now is the possibility that Obama’s candidacy, which has been so often compared to a souffle, will collapse for one reason or another and drag down the public’s opposition to the war with it." Those political atmospherics that you (justly) pan will go a long way to doing this. A lot of casual voters will simply reaquaint themselves with McCain's military biography, find out that he has one son in Iraq, another at Annapolis and likely on the way to Iraq and conclude that they might not much like the Iraq war, but will be pretty comfortable having McCain in charge of it. As I've said before, “More worrying to me now is the possibility that Obama’s candidacy, which has been so often compared to a souffle, will collapse for one reason or another and drag down the public’s opposition to the war with it.”

Those political atmospherics that you (justly) pan will go a long way to doing this. A lot of casual voters will simply reaquaint themselves with McCain’s military biography, find out that he has one son in Iraq, another at Annapolis and likely on the way to Iraq and conclude that they might not much like the Iraq war, but will be pretty comfortable having McCain in charge of it. As I’ve said before,

]]> By: davegnyc http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/2008/02/22/obama-and-the-antiwar-right/comment-page-1/#comment-9092 davegnyc Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:04:47 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2008/02/22/obama-and-the-antiwar-right/#comment-9092 I guess I would agree with you on all your points if we were talking Romney or Huckabee. I could convince myself that these guys are going to, in the end, try a different path. But with McCain I can't see that at all. McCain seems to be a 110% Bush Kool-aid drinker that provides no hope of anything but four more yeas of Bush double-plus-good. Still I will listen to all your discussion of Obama. Maybe you will scare me enough to consider McCain, but I doubt it. I guess I would agree with you on all your points if we were talking Romney or Huckabee. I could convince myself that these guys are going to, in the end, try a different path.

But with McCain I can’t see that at all. McCain seems to be a 110% Bush Kool-aid drinker that provides no hope of anything but four more yeas of Bush double-plus-good.

Still I will listen to all your discussion of Obama. Maybe you will scare me enough to consider McCain, but I doubt it.

]]> By: davegnyc http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/2008/02/22/obama-and-the-antiwar-right/comment-page-1/#comment-9091 davegnyc Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:00:29 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2008/02/22/obama-and-the-antiwar-right/#comment-9091 On scale alone, the Humanitarian wars just don't seem to be as costly, deadly or sticky We seem to be able to get out relatively quickly if it goes bad and the UN is much more willing to step in on these humanitarian missions as well. <i>Well, if we have to go, I propose liberating the South African minority. They’ve suffered enough.</i> Or perhaps a mission to the Gaza strip? There certainly is a Humanitarian disaster going on there. On scale alone, the Humanitarian wars just don’t seem to be as costly, deadly or sticky We seem to be able to get out relatively quickly if it goes bad and the UN is much more willing to step in on these humanitarian missions as well.

Well, if we have to go, I propose liberating the South African minority. They’ve suffered enough.

Or perhaps a mission to the Gaza strip? There certainly is a Humanitarian disaster going on there.

]]> By: Roach http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/2008/02/22/obama-and-the-antiwar-right/comment-page-1/#comment-9084 Roach Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:38:00 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2008/02/22/obama-and-the-antiwar-right/#comment-9084 We've got the amateur versus the psychopath. Wonderful. My question for Obama is where would he be on these silly "humanitarian" wars we keep finding ourselves in: Somalia, Kosovo, Haiti, and proposed wars in Sudan. These have a tendency to always prop up because something horrible is always happening to some hapless minority somewhere. Well, if we have to go, I propose liberating the South African minority. They've suffered enough. We’ve got the amateur versus the psychopath. Wonderful.

My question for Obama is where would he be on these silly “humanitarian” wars we keep finding ourselves in: Somalia, Kosovo, Haiti, and proposed wars in Sudan. These have a tendency to always prop up because something horrible is always happening to some hapless minority somewhere.

Well, if we have to go, I propose liberating the South African minority. They’ve suffered enough.

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