Re: [Marxism] And David Horowitz praises the imperialist heart of Obama's politics

["Lüko Willms" <lueko.willms@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Fred Feldman (ffeldman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote on 2009-06-06 at 07:30:08 in  
about [Marxism] And David Horowitz praises the imperialist heart of Obama's 
politics:

  quoting a certain David Horowitz: 

> Conservatives will make a great mistake if they fail to see this speech for
> what it was, and treat it as another round in the partisan food fight. It
> was not an appeasement of our enemies. It was a forthright statement by 
an
> American leader in a Muslim capital explaining why America is in fact the
> global leader in those battles that matter most to people everywhere:
> freedom, equality, and peace. 

  This is the big theme of all Obama speeches -- the one in Berlin, which I 
mentioned in my previous contribution on the subject, his visit at the site of 
the Buchenwald concentration camp (where a communist led resistance took 
over the camp just shortly before the US troops arrived, a fact which is not 
mentioned in the official talk), and also his participation in the celebrations 
of 
the invasion at the Normandy coast where US and British troops established 
with huge human losses a beach head from where they started their race 
against the Red Army which already had defeated German imperialism 
decisively at the Kursk battle, after signalling the turn of the war by the 
victory of Stalingrad. 

  I just don't really understand the significance of his short visit in Dresden 
on 
this trip. 

   Obama spelled it out, I believe, at the NATO summit in Baden Baden and 
Strasbourg (I quote from memory): The USA needs the collaboration of the 
European powers, but the European powers can't achieve anything without 
the USA. 

   But his talk is so much different than the one of his predecessor, and it 
seems really sincere while Dubya Bush was ostentatively cheating. 


Comradely, 

Lüko Willms
Frankfurt, Germany
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