Saturday, May 29, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Barry Rubin: Everything You Wanted to Know About Obama's National Security Doctrine But Were Afraid to Hear - 'Yes, children, there is an Obama Doctrine. The administration has now produced a National Security Strategy. I'm tempted to say that in this document the Obama Administration does a Dr. Kevorkian on U.S. power. The White House wants to prove most of all that it isn't the George W. Bush Administration but in doing so it also proves it isn't the Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Reagan, Bush I, or even Clinton administration, too...' [Must read.]
Have just read a post in PJM
What Would Winston Churchill Think of Obama?
Rubin writes: Obama argues that America faces no real military competitor at present and global power is increasingly diffuse.
and Churchill said: Poor England! Leading her free, careless life from day to day, amid endless good tempered parliamentary babble, she followed, wondering, down the downward path which led to all she wanted to avoid.