Is there a difference?

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Alex Seitz-Wald

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has grudgingly supported the anti-government movement in Egypt and called on President Hosni Mubarak to step down yesterday. But appearing on Fox News host Greta Van Susteren's show last night, McCain suggested he has serious reservations about the larger pro-democracy movement sweeping the Arab World from Tunisia to Jordon. McCain called the populist movement a "virus" that threatens Israel, and warned that we are in "probably the most dangerous period of history" of American involvement in the Middle East:

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Style may matter, but often it covers up some real ugliness. 

President Obama is cool, smooth, commanding.  But he's sitting by, while we continue on the same destructive course that Bush set out on.  I couldn't tolerate listening to Bush, but was his war any different than Obama's? 

McCain never fooled me.  An old Hawk.  An old, angry, white Hawk.  Schooled in the Military Mentality.  Of course he hates democracy.  Democracy is very unmilitary.  People need to be organized and controlled. 

There are certainly differences from one individual to the next, but does it really matter if your throat is being cut by someone snarling and spitting in your face, or someone shaking their head sadly and saying, "I'm sorry to have to do this". 

Somehow we need to train ourselves to look past the wrapping and see what's inside the package.  We are all susceptible to being charmed. 

Bush had his people running the government.  We all knew that.  Obama wants to make certain we believe he is running the country.  So he is placed in the awkward position of having to pretend to be a great compromiser in order to cover the fact that he is following his own marching orders.  From the same people who controlled Bush and Clinton, and Bush before him, and most certainly Reagan.  And probably all the way back to Ike.  Eisenhower warned us to look out for the military-Industrial Complex.  Trouble was, his warning was already too late. 

Check the links below for Ike's speech. 

 

Carl Jarvis

Military-Industrial Complex Speech, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961  

Military-Industrial Complex Speech, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961 ... Like every other citizen, I wish the new President, and all who will labor with him, ...
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Ike warned of 'military-industrial complex' 50 years ago - The ...  

Jan 17, 2011 ... Ike warned of 'military-industrial complex' 50 years ago - The Oval: Tracking the Obama presidency.
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