We've been tightly-and rightly-focused on the stimulus and the bailout of late. But if Obama's economic moves, reflecting his economic team ("no one could have foreseen...") have been disappointing tilted towards the conventional stupidity that got us into this mess in the first place, that's not the only realm in which this pattern holds true, as was signaled most blatantly by his retention of Bush's Secretary of Defense, Iran/Contra second-string player Robert Gates.
It took less than a week for Obama to start bombing civilians, just like his predecessor. Thankfully, for small favors, Bill Moyers, as LBJ's one-time press secretary, has seen this movie before, up close and personal, and he put on one helluva segment last night directly taking on this ominous step into darkness. His guests included Marilyn Young, whose book, Vietnam Wars 1945-1990 is, for my money, the best single overview of the war ever written, and Pierre Sprey, one of Robert McNamara's "whiz kids" who went on to help found the military reform movement in the last 1970s, and between the two of them they left little doubt of just how disastrous a course of action Obama appears to have set out on.
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