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Related: About this forumObama’s Break with the Establishment
And btw: Vote for Bernie SandersTuesday, 22 March 2016 07:46
By Gareth Porter. This article was first published on Consortium News.
President Obama, with his characteristic diffidence, has announced his liberation from the Washington foreign-policy playbook, but the national security elite is already striking back, writes Gareth Porter.
The biggest story in Jeffrey Goldbergs 20,000-word report on The Obama Doctrine is President Barack Obamas open break with the foreign policy establishment.
The critique of orthodox national security policy thinking that Obama outlined in interviews with Goldberg goes farther than anything delivered on the record by a sitting president. It showed that Obamas view on how to define and advance U.S. national security diverges sharply from those of the orthodox views of national security bureaucracy and Washington foreign policy think tanks on U.S. credibility, the real interests the United States in the Middle East and how the United States should respond to terrorism.
It was the controversy surrounding his decision in the 2013 Syrian crisis not to authorize airstrikes against government forces that provoked Obama to go public with his position in that broader struggle. The foreign policy elite in Washington has issued a steady drumbeat of opinion pieces portraying Obamas failure to launch a cruise missile attack against the Syrian air force and its air defense system in 2013 as a major blow to the U.S. role in the world because it forfeited U.S. credibility.
http://therealnews.com/t2/component/content/article/92-more-blog-posts-from-gareth-porter/2672-obamas-break-with-the-establishment
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Obama’s Break with the Establishment (Original Post)
Jefferson23
Mar 2016
OP
HRC or a Rethug in the WH will be their ultimate revenge against Obama's foreign policy playbook
Larkspur
Mar 2016
#1
That's my fear too. Time for Bernie to draw these distinctions with more intensity now.n/t
Jefferson23
Mar 2016
#2
NYT ran a series of articles in 2014 about how Hillary and Petraeus ran the Syria regime change op
leveymg
Mar 2016
#3
Yep, the plus now is there is more Bernie can use, imo..he should use the quotes
Jefferson23
Mar 2016
#4
Larkspur
(12,804 posts)1. HRC or a Rethug in the WH will be their ultimate revenge against Obama's foreign policy playbook
HRC is much more hawkish than Obama and she supports Israel's apartheid policies.
HRC will break with Obama's diplomacy first playbook.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)2. That's my fear too. Time for Bernie to draw these distinctions with more intensity now.n/t
leveymg
(36,418 posts)3. NYT ran a series of articles in 2014 about how Hillary and Petraeus ran the Syria regime change op
The President's reservations have been long known. What's coming out now are some details, such as Slaughter's email congratulating Hillary on ramming Libyan airstrikes through over Obama's misgivings and attempt to slow down escalation of US involement in the overthrow.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)4. Yep, the plus now is there is more Bernie can use, imo..he should use the quotes
from the article the Obama Doctrine. It is powerful and speaks to Clinton's
horrific judgment.