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Iraq's Maliki Government Requested US Air Strikes - Denied

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lawhawk6/12/2014 2:33:55 pm PDT

re: #317 Lidane

You need to recalibrate your left-right. Obama is socialist/communist (and a awful one at that), who’s only surpassed to the left by Carter, Clinton, and the Devil himself.

Never mind that his foreign policy puts him on center right, in line with Nixon, Eisenhower, JFK, and most other 20th century presidents. Willing to use the military to a point, but wary of entanglements.

It’s not a perfect alignment, but presidential foreign policy isn’t a whipsaw endeavor in the US where you go from far right to far left, or even center right to center left.

It’s a gradual shift, and in the time Obama’s been in office, he’s carried on many of the Bush Administration foreign policy choices, while staking out a few differences, but the weight of the foreign policy is still center right - being involved in world affairs, protecting US interests (the key difference between administrations is identifying what those are, and how best to protect them), and winding down the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.