Now Mr. Obama and his campaign advisors are floating the idea of keeping Sec'y of Defense GATES on as Sec'y in the "anti-war," Democratic Obama Administration?

Admittedly Mr. Gates's no Rumsfeld.

But gee, this makes Obama's idea of nominating Sen. Lugar for Sec'y of State (R., Chair of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, one of 8 congressional members briefed by Bush during this war, and famed Obama mentor) look merely conservative.

Our new war policies: same as our old war policies?

I've been reading Paul Starr's "Freedom's Power", and while I have a ways to go yet, one thing has already struck me forcibly - the rise of the authoritarian right was aided by media consolidation. Read more…

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