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Obama's "enemy combatant" policy: following a familiar pattern - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com

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First: Denounce your presidential predecessor for a given policy, energizing your party's base and capitalizing on his abiding unpopularity. Second: Pretend to have reversed that policy upon taking office with a symbolic act or high-profile statement. Third: Adopt a version of that same policy, knowing that it's the only way to govern responsibly or believing that doing otherwise is too difficult.

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Too much by Archie on Tuesday, Mar 17, 2009 at 4:18:21 PM
i'm more interested in facts and options for real change by Better World Order on Tuesday, Mar 17, 2009 at 5:08:58 PM