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Entry: We're obsessed with Power -- but the real issue is Obama Link: http://www.takimag.com/sniperstower/article/were_obsessed_with_power_but_the_real_issue_is_obama#19407 Post contents: From everything I've read about him and heard him say (in person once, here in New Mexico), I believe that he's far too mindful of the expense and the wastefulness of an overly interventionist foreign policy. He might pontificate a bit, as President, about Darfur, but I'm absolutely convinced he'd want to expend whatever political capital he won in a mandate on things like national health care and re-negotiating NAFTA in the interests of both American workers and environmental and human rights concerns. I see Obama, in the military field, as merely a "4th generation warrior," which means no invasions of anywhere, and, instead, "counter-terrorist, surgical stikes." I also believe he'd pursue much more vigorous, much more "internationalist-minded" diplomacy that would be highly innovative, but also very hard-headed. I could see him some day going to Teheran, just as Nixon went to Beijing. Sent at: 2008 09 05