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And why we won't see any change in American foreign policy
The American people are sick and tired of the Bush era, and they are counting the days until Barack Obama is inaugurated. The reasons for this are manifold, of course, but the one that concerns us especially here at Antiwar.com is the vital question of war and peace. American foreign policy had become so relentlessly aggressive, and with such disastrous results, that John McCain's alleged national security credentials were moot. Even if the economy hadn't tanked so spectacularly at a crucial point in the election season, I contend that Obama would've won in a landslide anyway. And it surely didn't help when the author of our disastrous foreign policy, Vice President Dick Cheney, was wheeled out to issue his kiss-of-death endorsement: talk about the stab in the back!
In any case, what I really mean to say is that our crazed foreign policy was a major reason why Americans gave Obama such a stunning victory. There's just one problem: our foreign policy is going to remain pretty much the same.
Say whaaaat?!
That's right: you heard me. No change in that department. Why is that, you ask? The reason is because the War Party has a strategy perfectly suited to solving their major problem, which is that they lack any kind of popular support, as the McCain campaign discovered to its horror. So instead of playing the game, they decided to rig it
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Someone once yelled at me that peace was the only issue of importance in America, but he was wrong. Truth is the most important issue. We are fed myths and false-accounts of both current events and history until it is impossible for most Americans to make an informed decision. They have no real, truthful information to base a decision on.
Here in the comments section of UT we see it all the time; people who think that the Democrats (or whoever) are "on your side" simply because they say so. It is a game they play --- Democracy is not rule by the people.
