A smart friend says that his main hope is that Obama is assembling a center-right foreign policy team in order to give himself cover to conduct a center-left foreign policy. Well let's hope. But why does he need cover? Didn't he get elected by the center-left? Can't he govern from the center-left? Oh, innocent reader: this is the chief fascination of this blog. And the answer is Summers, Emanuel and Clinton, and the power bloc they represent in American society.
Yesterday I said I was going to blog every day one simple statement from Brent Scowcroft, that the election of Obama had removed the ancient stain of injustice from our history, now it is time to lift the injustice from the Palestinians.
…Mr Obama has for several months been
taking advice from Brent Scowcroft, the national security adviser to
the first President Bush.
His return to prominence in Washington
represents a resurgence of the old school conservative realists, who
were largely eclipsed during this Bush administration by the
neoconservatives.
They place US national interests above the
quest to defend human rights or to spread democracy. Progressives and
liberals see Mr Scowcroft's hand in the move to retain Mr Gates, an old
friend, at the Pentagon and also in the expected elevation of Gen.
Jones.
