humanities.philosophy.objectivism

In article <60eb4bd5-f430-42a6-a722-770b69230143
@s12g2000prg.googlegroups.com>, agentcooper9@gmail.com says...
>
> I'm 90% sure these are the people that would constitute the backbone
> of Obama's FP. I think it's probably more helpful to think of Gary
> Hart here than Brezinski. If I could sum it up, it's
>
> (1) Continue the fighting strategy Bush developed in Afghanistan
> (i.e., lots of fluid, unconventional, CIA-plus-military ground action--
> see Woodward's "Bush At War" for nice descriptions of this)
> (2) Rebuild alliances
> (3) Focus on securing nukes from nonstate actors (btw, Obama actually
> has a legislative track record on this, though for some weird reason,
> there's almost no discussion of it at all. See
> http://obama.senate.gov/press/070111-lugar-obama_non/ )
> (4) Downplay "democracy" promotion where it isn't helpful
> (5) "Drain the swamp" by taking failed and failing states in hand
> (i.e., what we might've done with Afghanistan to prevent 9/11)
> (6) Propaganda offensive, including avoiding things like Abu Graib
> scandals, by changing our way of doing things with detention,
> interrogation, etc.
>
> Now this is, as far as I can tell, all about *tactics* rather than
> goals, assuming that you take it in good faith. What's controversial
> here for folks hereabouts? I'm guessing:

Coop, Coop, the problem with (1)-(6) is that it is all too complicated
and requires us to stop doing things that we have every right to do.
All we need is: (A) Nuke anyone who disagrees with us on anything. Soon
after that, everyone (who is still alive) will go back to respecting
America. We have been appeasers for too long!


--
Gordon