Obama es un intervencionista

Robert Kagan le da un buen «repaso» dialéctico al bueno de Obama. Tremendo:

Obama talks about «rogue nations,» «hostile dictators,» «muscular alliances» and maintaining «a strong nuclear deterrent.» He talks about how we need to «seize» the «American moment.» We must «begin the world anew.» This is realism? This is a left-liberal foreign policy?

Ask Noam Chomsky the next time you see him.

Aprovecho para decirles que a mí me parecen muy bien algunas de las cosas que dice Obama,

Instead, he said, «I agree.» His critique is not that we’ve meddled too much but that we haven’t meddled enough. There is more to building democracy than «deposing a dictator and setting up a ballot box.» We must build societies with «a strong legislature, an independent judiciary, the rule of law, a vibrant civil society, a free press, and an honest police force.» We must build up «the capacity of the world’s weakest states» and provide them «what they need to reduce poverty, build healthy and educated communities, develop markets, . . . generate wealth . . . fight terrorism . . . halt the proliferation of deadly weapons» and fight disease. …

aunque termine recurriendo al gasto público para conseguir sus objetivos, devaluando sus propuestas:

… Obama proposes to double annual expenditures on these efforts, to $50 billion, by 2012.

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