Change that's Not: 'Obama on Bush route'

Recent sanctions against Iran are an attempt by the US to return the country to its sphere of influence, claims veteran journalist John Pilger. "Iran was a pillar of the American empire in the Middle East. That was swept away in 1979 by the Islamic revolution, and it has been American foreign policy to get that back," he said. "It has absolutely nothing to do with so-called nuclear weapons. The nuclear power in the Middle East is the fourth biggest military power in the world and that is Israel. It has something like 500 or more nuclear warheads. It is never discussed." Pilger added that Barack Obama has failed to change the trajectory of US foreign policy and following George W. Bush's line. "For the first time in US presidential history -- it has not happened before -- a president has taken the entire defense department bureaucracy, and the Secretary of State for Defense, from a previous discredited administration. We have basically Robert Gates and the same generals running American foreign policy with a lot of help from people of like mind."

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[erikinhawaii]

thumbs up if you think Obama is following the Neocon outline for world domination. Thumbs down if you disagree.

[eastariel]

America, why must you be a co-dependent in Israel's ego war?

It reminds me of divorce, when bystanders treat it like a spectator sport and side with the whinier parent. That only makes it harder for the children involved.

Yes, I know Israel still has ancient history to whine about. Just tell them to get over it. I'm a Native American; does that mean I should keep rubbing your nose in the Native American Holocaust?

The past is dead. The future still has a chance for survival.

[conantdog]

yea the shear sound of the Historical and world Fact makes most Americans mad, Invading army's fighting for profits and corporate and Senate pensions are not Heros. Pilger is a great journalist filmmaker and humanitarian.

[atrios28]

Well then could you at least throw us that bottle of K-Y Jelly over there on the hand table please? It hurts to be sodomized without lubricant for so long ............

[JLDoggard]

Haha! I do wonder with Jackson, to be honest. It seems like no one can be that stereotypically a Tea Party supporter. Beck is an opportunist and his main goal seems to be self-aggrandisement, but this leaves plenty of room for anti-Muslim bigotry.

[atrios28]

you're almost right. turn the mirror upside-down; Victoria Jackson & Glenn Beck are on the Obama payroll

[atrios28]

Extra-Ordinary

[JLDoggard]

Yeah. I favour looking for continuity in all things, and especially in systems of power. This is one reason I find these people like Victoria Jackson and Glenn Beck so foolish -actually, obfuscatory!- in their insistence on Obama being a "communist". Continuity.

[comfibold]

Afghanistan is the new Vietnam for America.