Indeed, the interview between Thomas Friedland and Barack Obama in Years of Living Dangerously made it perfectly clear how little BO can (and wants to) do.stevecook172001 wrote:Nobody is suggesting they are competent. And nobody is suggesting that what they do is based on anything more than short term reactions to events within a framework of long term aims. However, what is clear is that those long term aims exist and they are more or less based on who is funding the political parties in power and have little to do with real consultation of the people until and unless they have been appropriately culturally/politically conditioned to give the "correct" response beforehand.vtsnowedin wrote:Your WSWS places a lot more faith in the competence of the Obama administration, at actually having a plan ,evil or not, and carrying it out, then I do.The CSIS has played a key role in the Obama administration’s ‘pivot’ to Asia. Their concrete recommendations for the provocative escalation of the US military encirclement and diplomatic isolation of China have been consistently carried out. A report on US policy in the South China Sea from the CSIS should be regarded as having semi-official status.
Apart from saying nothing of interest, Obama finished by saying it was 'the people who will act' and (without the slightest trace of irony) 'reward politicians who talk honestly about the subject'.
Yep, once their homes and jobs are gone and they're dying in debt in the heat, flood or hurricane. 