Peter Beinart on the Obama Doctrine

Schwartz Fellow Peter Beinart on the emergence of the Obama Doctrine and what the new Afghanistan strategy reveals about the Obama administration's view of American power. Beinart also addresses some of the similarities and differences between the Vietnam War and the War in Afghanistan.

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News & Politics

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• Obama
• doctrine
• foreign
• policy
• afghanistan

[efrem1]

In the two years since this video air , we know now that we will be in Iraq and Afghanistan until 2014 at least. Obama's venture into Libya was a horrible setback to military downsizing and hearkens back to Ike's desire for low-budget regime change.

[OfficialTribe]

So Obama is buddying up with killers to kill the killers that want to kill us.

[guitfiddle0409]

Peter Beinart is a delusional moron. Why does he get the attention? Regular, normal Americans are a lot more astute about foreign and domestic events than this effete poser.

[jeffreylharmon]

Those people who think the war on terror is only about focusing on Al Qaeda are new comers to the issue. They need to read about the long line of terrorist organizations that have come from the middle east for a very long time. All of them are based around a cult of personality. At the time of 9/11, Osama Bin Laden was not the top name on the lips of the sympathizers in the middle east. And we should realize that a vast majority of Arabs sympathize with them. It's cultural.

[yahazif]

The reason why Bush defined the "War on Terror" broadly is because our enemy is broad. Focusing exclusively on Al Qaeda is a foolish denial of radical Islams world wide Jihad.

[iSAW7]

The Taliban shares the same ideology of Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda. This idea that they differ is based on what exactly? Is there an active Taliban sect fighting Al Qaeda currently? Peter Beinart is being disingenuous and has no basis for his claims.

[s1187a]

I smell Bullshit!!!

[Stormwern]

there are orders of magnitude of terrible. If you're looking for a good solution to afghanistan, there isn't one.

[nep808]

this guy really knows how to talk bullshit, Obama's policy is terrible