During the 2012 presidential campaign some of my libertarian friends
would revert to the following talking-point: there is really no major
difference between the foreign-policy agendas of Barack Obama and Mitt
Romney. Obama has proved to be very different in his diplomacy and
national security from the kind of peacenik he was portrayed as during
his 2008 run for the White House, with the surge in Afghanistan,
confrontation with Iran, military intervention in Libya, failure to
challenge Israel, etc.
The bottom line was that Obama and Romney were supposedly cut from the same foreign-policy cloth, with both supporting an interventionist military approach in the Middle East and elsewhere. Therefore libertarians and conservatives who were critical of the neoconservative policies that had been promoted by President George W. Bush should not be fooled in the way some of them were in 2008 and should refrain from casting their ballot for Obama.
Read more: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/is-barack-obama-a-republican-realist/
The bottom line was that Obama and Romney were supposedly cut from the same foreign-policy cloth, with both supporting an interventionist military approach in the Middle East and elsewhere. Therefore libertarians and conservatives who were critical of the neoconservative policies that had been promoted by President George W. Bush should not be fooled in the way some of them were in 2008 and should refrain from casting their ballot for Obama.
Read more: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/is-barack-obama-a-republican-realist/
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