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PAPA IN CHIEF
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2/6/2010 9:37:19 PM
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Below is one part of the article in ESQUIRE magazine by Tom Junod on His Excellency, President Barack Hussein Obama. I have given the site for reading the total article. Very interesting.
"George Bush was not a post-evil president. He recognized evil and set himself up in opposition to it. He labeled it — labeled, in fact, three countries as the "axis of evil" — and was motivated by it; in the end, he countenanced it.
Obama does not label, for labeling would deprive him of his ability to include, and inclusion, rather than isolation, is his goal for rogue nations.
More than any other difference in policy, it is this difference that distinguishes one president from the other, to the extent that when Obama made his speech announcing that he was sending thirty thousand more Americans to Afghanistan — announcing that he was going to try to finish, with the clock running, the war that George Bush began — he never mentioned the word evil or evildoer.
It was as though he were trying to conduct a war by the principles of positive discipline, and when, a few days later, he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize with a defense of war and the surprising announcement that "evil does exist," it was clearly something he felt he had to say because he didn't quite make the sale in his earlier speech.
In the end, it is awfully hard to make the case for war without making the case for evil.
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