Obama...A Hawk and an Expansionist
"It is time the wishful-thinkers grew up politically and debated the world of great power as it is, not as they hope it will be.
"Like all serious presidential candidates, past and present, Obama is a hawk and an expansionist.
"To AIPAC, Obama promised to support an "undivided Jerusalem" as Israel's capital. Not a single government on earth supports the Israeli annexation of all of Jerusalem, including the Bush regime, which recognises the UN resolution designating Jerusalem an international city.
"In Miami, speaking to the expatriate Cuban community - which over the years has faithfully produced terrorists, assassins and drug runners for US administrations - Obama promised to continue a 47-year crippling embargo on Cuba that has been declared illegal by the UN year after year.
"Again, Obama went further than Bush. He said the United States had "lost Latin America". He described the democratically elected governments in Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua as a "vacuum" to be filled. He raised the nonsense of Iranian influence in Latin America, and he endorsed Colombia's "right to strike terrorists who seek safe-havens across its borders". Obama also endorsed the so-called Merida Initiative, which Amnesty International and others have condemned as the US bringing the "Colombian solution" to Mexico. He did not stop there. "We must press further south as well," he said. Not even Bush has said that.
"It is time the wishful-thinkers grew up politically and debated the world of great power as it is, not as they hope it will be.
"Like all serious presidential candidates, past and present, Obama is a hawk and an expansionist. - John Pilger