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[Marxism] "managing the foreign policy apparatus not in Obama's hands alone"




as to the point that we shouldn't get too bent out of shape because of
Obama's picks, and that we should wait and see what he himself does ---

an excerpt from today's Democracy Now radio program --

Robert Dreyfuss --

The second point I would make, is that the people of the next levels down at
both the State and Defense Department, is going to be very very important.
And there is no indication at all the Barack Obama intends to oversee that
process. Who Robert Gates keeps on at the Defense Department including some
fairly troubling characters in important posts there, is something that weâre

going to have to watch very closely., and as well at the state department,
whether Hillary Clinton turns to people, including some of the muscular
democratic
hawks like Richard Holbrooke and in particular Dennis Ross, who is now
ensconced at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, which is an AIPAC
spin-of, and brings these people in to help run the State Department is
another
big question. So, thereâs a lot of aspects of managing a huge foreign policy
apparatus that cannot reside in the hands of Barack Obama alone. He is not
going to do this, CHANGE WILL NOT COME FROM HIM PERSONALLY EXCEPT IN THE
BROADEST OUTLINE. THE IMPLEMENTATION OF FOREIGN POLICY IS GOING TO COME FROM
THE
PEOPLE THAT HE PICKS. ( my caps ).

full --

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