Re: [Marxism] Obama: From anti-war law professor to warmonger in 100 days

[Eli Stephens <elishastephens@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Anti-war law professor"? Well, Cockburn got it about a quarter right. Obama 
was a "lecturer" and then a "senior lecturer"; both may allow him to be 
addressed by his students as "Professor," but neither actually qualifies as a 
"Professor" in the academic scheme of things.

As for "anti-war," that must have been in a previous lifetime. Opposed to the 
invasion of Iraq only as "the wrong war at the wrong time" (a paraphrase, not a 
quote), but hardly "antiwar," and by that I don't mean he's not a pacifist. He 
himself made very clear he was opposed to "dumb wars," (and that is a direct 
quote) i.e., wars for which the "return on investment" wasn't sufficient. 
Despite his claim as a "professor" of law, and his religious convictions, his 
concern for international law, much less morality, was entirely absent; 
practicality was his only criterion. That doesn't qualify one as "antiwar" in 
the book of anyone who really *is* antiwar, as one might have thought Cockburn 
was.


Eli Stephens
 Left I on the News
 http://lefti.blogspot.com


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