Andrew Asks...

Does anyone believe for a second that Obama was elected first over Clinton and then over McCain in order to perpetuate exactly the policies McCain and Clinton support. Has Hillary ever opposed any war in the last twenty years?

Hey, it just occured to me:
Maybe Obama really is smarter than we think. Or as smart as some, like D. Brooks, have him cracked up to be. Got us all focused today on Libyan intervention, then BOOM. We intervene in the slaughter in Yemen instead.

Sleight of hand. Tricks up his sleeves maybe, and y'all thought the man was a follower, not a leader.

Go O.!
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MORE ANDREW:

But it seems clear enough: exactly the same alliance that gave us Iraq is giving us Libya: the neocons who want to see the US military deployed across the globe in the defense of freedom and the liberal interventionists who believe that the US should intervene whenever atrocities are occurring. What these two groups have in common is an unrelenting focus on the reason for intervention along with indifference to the vast array of unintended consequences their moralism could lead us into. I do not doubt their good intentions and motives. No human being can easily watch a massacre and stand by. Yet we did so with Iran; and we are doing so in Yemen and Bahrain as we speak, and have done so for decades because we rightly make judgments based on more than feeling.

He's good when he's Sullivan the Serious like this, not just Silly Sully playing for hits.

Perhaps that's what distinguishes him from that Madison law professor. He can, when he has it in him, and she is really at her best with the lightweight stuff, spinning drama from straw. Sometimes laughable, and revealing, when she goes for serious political analysis, actually. Different educations and backgrounds, I suppose.

Qualified: IMHO, of course.