Unintended consequences. Barack Obama is above all else a realist. He may have had no grand scheme of asserting American power but he ended up doing so. His biggest objective was to capture or kill Osama bin laden, something that he could have never done had he not recognized that intel is desirable even if it is counter-intuitive. Even if he is not a chest-thumping super-patriot, he can make the right decisions that happen to look as if they came from 'Neocon Headquarters'.
The fault with the Neocons was that they latched themselves to the wrong President. People who try to force history to meet their dreams have a poor win-loss record.
The fault with the Neocons was that they latched themselves to the wrong President. People who try to force history to meet their dreams have a poor win-loss record.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.