[Marxism] Obama's "enemy combatant" policy: following a familiar pattern

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Glenn Greenwald --
 
Sunday March 15, 2009 17:01 EDT
Obama's "enemy combatant" policy: following a familiar  pattern
clip -- 
After many years of anger and complaint and outrage directed at the Bush  
administration for its civil liberties assaults and executive power abuses, the 
 
last thing most people want to do is conclude that the Obama administration  
is continuing the core of that extremism.  That was why the flurry of  
executive orders in the first week produced such praise:  those who are  
devoted to 
civil liberties were, from the start, eager to believe that things  would be 
different, and most want to do everything but conclude that the only  
improvements that will be made by Obama will be cosmetic ones. 
But it's becoming increasingly difficult for honest commentators to do  
anything else but conclude that.  After all, these are the exact policies  
which, 
when embraced by Bush, produced such intense protest over the last eight  
years.  Nobody is complaining because the Obama administration is  acting too 
slowly in renouncing these policies.  The opposite is  true:   they are rushing 
to 
actively embrace  them.  And while there are still opportunities to  
meaningfully depart from the extremism of the last eight years, the evidence  
appears 
more and more compelling that, at least in these areas, there is little  or no 
intent on the part of the Obama administration to do so. 
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<_http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/03/15/obama/index.html_ 
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