. . . to Obama:
Iraq is a keystone state in a critical region and is situated at a chokepoint on the world economy and the trade routes of the nations. You have yet to make a speech that recognizes this rather salient fact, or that shows an understanding of the difference between the moral significance of a country and its geopolitical standing.
Everybody understands this difference in practice, which is why we do not confront the People’s Republic of China over Tibet, for example. As you yourself demand to be told in The Audacity of Hope, “why invade Iraq and not North Korea or Burma? Why intervene in Bosnia and not Darfur? Are our goals in Iran regime change, the dismantling of all Iranian nuclear capacity, the prevention of nuclear proliferation, or all three?” It must have struck you that you are now having to answer these momentous questions instead of asking them, and that after the closing years of Bush/Cheney the same questions still stand.
Yes. They do. Vaya con Dios, Mr. President-Elect: you’ve signed up for a tough gig.
Via Dan Collins at Protein Wisdom.
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