The myth so far this Presidential campaign is that Democrats, arguing that we need to pull out of Iraq, will be less likely to go to war in 2009-2012. Given Obama's statement about Pakistan recently, it shows that even he, the one who was against "dumb wars" shares Bush's worldview on this.

Democrats tend to intervene militarily at least as much as Republicans (especially in the Clinton school), albeit for different motivations sometimes. Nick Schweitzer elaborates:

The Democrat's playbook is clear. Iraq is "Bush's War", and as much as possible will be "The Republican's War" to hurt Rudy, Thompson², McCain (is he still running?) and the rest (except Ron Paul). But in order to look strong on the War on Terror, they will have to find a war of their very own. Obama is picking on Pakistan and Edwards is picking Saudi Arabia. Iran is too closely tied to Iraq to be a good target, so they're avoiding it. It will be interesting to see who attracts the ire of Mrs. Clinton.

The exception to this rule would be the "peace candidate" of Dennis Kucinich and the "ostrich candidate" Ron Paul.

Labels: 2008 Watch, Barack Obama, GWOT, Iraq

Posted by Ryan S. on Thursday, August 02, 2007 at 10:58 AM | Permalink |