Obamas Values-Free Foreign Policy | National Catholic Reporter

Obamas Values-Free Foreign Policy | National Catholic Reporter by MSW.  MGB: We are not only war weary, but our military is war weary - so a higher threshold of war is justified and at least Obama is honest enough to state that - although this does not prevent him from entering the Nigerian civil war to go after Boka Haram.  It was, afterall, just a commencement speech.  That he made the limiting critereon American interests is no surprise.  He is a committed capitalist.  So were FDR and JFK. Indeed, within weeks  after his inaugural, JFK supported the Bay of Pigs fiasco.  Not being a militarist and anti-Communist were not in his nature.  In other words, his Inaugural oratory was not exactly accurate in describing his means and ends.  If you really want a values based, economic interests be damned, elect a libertarian socialist to be President - although that may get you another Iraq - though hopefully not a bungled one.   As for the UK and Europe, common history and common capitalism guide it.  As for Israel, it is the dominance of Jews in the Democratic intelligencia and in our voting blocks, as well as our very real guilt for not doing more about Hitler when we could have allowed mass immigration.  As for Cheney, he is not in the sam class as Obama, JFK or FDR.