Ah, this good: Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, comes out and says if Iran gets the bomb it will be 'calamitous', 'disastrous' etc etc - and yet of course maintains that America will not be involving itself militarily. You can read between the lines here, right? If the results of a nuclear Iran would be as profoundly negative as he suggests then it would be illogical to rule out US military action to intercede - and yet he rules it out regardless. You don't sense a collision brewing here between Obama and the military?
Right now among the most worrisome of threats I see coming from this president is that given his predilections his main concerns will be with domestic policy, meaning the much more convoluted [and dangerous] gyrations of foreign policy will get short shrift - ie a parade of phony initiatives that give the impression that 'something' is being done when in reality everything's just being pushed back into a corner - and then what's in the corner jumps out and chews your fucking balls off. That's my big fear with Obama. That and the fact his domestic policy sucks wind as well...
Possibly one sees a reflection of this in the pseudo debate between Obama and Cheney of yesterday - as usual and to my great annoyance those leaning left perceived Obama to be the winner and those leaning right of course champion Cheney - I continue to not see the point of holding an opinion if that opinion is to be forever constrained by religiosity of an ideology - but, be that as it may, my concern was not so much on what they said but how what they said framed the differing approaches - ie, Cheney equals action, Obama inaction. My concern with Obama has always been that the daunting nastiness of foreign policy, so resistant to charm and rhetoric and so unforgiving to one's ego, will not suit his ambitions and will result in him therefore trying to quell the beast through endless debate and ostensibly high minded ministrations - like professors arguing a point in the faculty lounge and then going on their little ways feeling content that 'something' had been accomplished.
