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On the Right on Monday, July 21, 2008 10:52:37 PM
Obama the isolationist
The always-worth-reading James Kirchick asks a good question about Obama's isolationism: Why stop at Iraq?
Why stop at Iraq? There is no limit to Obama’s admonition. He happened
to choose Iraq reconstruction aid as the target of his ire because
anything associated with that poor country has become unpopular with
the American electorate. Yet the underlying logic of Obama’s statement
is that we shouldn’t spend money on projects overseas if that money
could likewise be spent here at home. Why not go after the billions of
dollars we spend to combat the spread of AIDS in Africa? Why not attack
the programs we spend on democracy promotion in some of the world’s
darkest tyrannies? Come to think of it, why is the United States
offering so much aid to cyclone-ravaged Burma, when those dollars could
be spent on flood relief in the Midwest?