{"id":1521,"date":"2009-12-13T16:05:53","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T00:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/13\/obama-a-politician-as-usual\/"},"modified":"2017-08-09T20:03:24","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T04:03:24","slug":"obama-a-politician-as-usual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/1521\/obama-a-politician-as-usual\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama: A Politician As Usual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/fishwarpeace363.jpg\" alt=\"fishwarpeace363.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Cartoon courtesy <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20130919183344\/http:\/\/www.truthdig.com:80\/mr_fish\/\">Mr. Fish<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By David Bryson, MD (Yale &#8217;63)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>December 13, 2009<\/p>\n<p>Three years ago I posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/othervoices\/lt_breakfast.shtml\">three columns at <em>Fog City Journal<\/em><\/a> under the rubric of Cosmopolitics, presenting an exponential escalation of human history  &#8211; Human History in a Hurry &#8211; and a theory about the evolutionary function of mammalian sleep &ndash; the Circadian Theory of Learning. Last month, I resumed writing for <em>Fog City Journa<\/em>l, zooming in on world headlines and headliners.  My focus: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/10\/obamas-serial-non-transparency\/\">Obama&rsquo;s lack of transparency<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Three hundred and sixty years ago, Thomas Hobbes, in Leviathan, put forth the idea that humans need sovereign governments with sweeping authority to avoid a condition of war pitting &ldquo;all against all,&rdquo; stemming from brute human nature.  But with sovereign governments leading the way, in the &ldquo;Terrible Twentieth&rdquo; Century, well over 100 million human hearts stopped beating because of war.  Potentates and politicians unleashed the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--> <strong>Violence begets more violence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 21st century is not looking much better.  Afghanistan is a toxic blur of war and drugs.  Instead of a war ON drugs, Afghanistan is war AND drugs &#8211; war and opium are the two main activities driving daily existence and death.<\/p>\n<p>In his <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2009\/12\/white-house-fact-sheet-on-afghanistan.php\">West Point speech<\/a>, President Obama said, &ldquo;We will focus our assistance in areas &ndash; such as agriculture &ndash; that can make an immediate impact on the lives of the Afghan people.&rdquo;  This is pure drivel &ndash; the only immediate impact that planting wheat instead of poppy would have would be to bankrupt and antagonize the poppy farmers.<\/p>\n<p>Obama is ordering death by drone, sometimes assassinating members of Taliban\/al-Qaeda, and sometimes assassinating major opium kingpins, all the while Afghanistan President Karzai&rsquo;s brother gets a free pass. This is as non-transparent and as black as it gets.<\/p>\n<p>The hatred resulting from drone and Predator missiles is beyond measure, and the 18-month timeline for troop escalation is more suited to the production of a war movie than actual war.<\/p>\n<p>This <em>Uncertain Century<\/em> features global warring anywhere, and global warming everywhere.  Global warring interferes with proper focus and attention needed on global warming.   Daily headlines of military mayhem push concern for the planetary fever chart away from sight and mind.   Militization drains the civility out of civilization.  The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the man in charge of the country which is far and away the largest manufacturer and supplier of military hardware for sale and use.<\/p>\n<p>Warfare aside, there are now more than 200-sovereign governments, a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rube_Goldberg\">Rube Goldberg<\/a> collection of rules, regulations, and entrenched inequalities.   This arrangement is as entrenched as the dinosaurs, and it would take something as catastrophic as a planetary asteroid to dislodge the status quo &ndash; the politicians with their protocols, perks, perpetuity, with their ambassadors and adoring assistants.<\/p>\n<p>The world recognizes a &ldquo;failed state,&rdquo; but fails to recognize a failed system of states.  If Hobbes were brought back to survey the fruits of Leviathan in time present, a good analogy would be the nature of cancer and metastatic growth lurking beneath the label of &ldquo;international community.&rdquo;  Even without pervasive war, the prospect of a global domestique is remote.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Political and optical illusions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Public speech from politicians is pure politictoc &ndash; on their clocks and their time. On National Public Radio, the news is written by person A, read by person B, and then persons A and B decide their plans for their paychecks and their weekends.  NPR is full of clich\u00c3\u00a9s and is almost brain dead.   The word &ldquo;very&rdquo; is very standard, as is &ldquo;very important&rdquo; and &ldquo;very clear.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>On December 3, during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testified, &ldquo;I think you raised a very profoundly important question.&rdquo;  She also said during a briefing enroute to Brussels, &ldquo;There are people who will do what we think of as training &ndash; you know, &lsquo;Here&rsquo;s how you load your weapon.&rsquo;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Now is not the time&rdquo; to &ldquo;take any options off the table.&rdquo;  &ldquo;Washington wants&rdquo; more &ldquo;boots on the ground.&rdquo;  The &ldquo;folks&rdquo; in the &ldquo;intelligence community&rdquo; &ldquo;will not rule out&rdquo; whatever.  This language is constant on NPR, daily TV newscasters, or from some stupid official.<\/p>\n<p>A year ago I was extremely pleased with Obama&rsquo;s victory. His first book was great.  Now I see him as a politician-as-usual, more concerned with his re-election than the fortunes and fates of 6.5 billion of the rest of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cartoon courtesy Mr. Fish. By David Bryson, MD (Yale &#8217;63) December 13, 2009 Three years ago I posted three columns at Fog City Journal under the rubric of Cosmopolitics, presenting an exponential escalation of human&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6413,"featured_media":1522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Obama: A Politician As Usual - Fog City Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/1521\/obama-a-politician-as-usual\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Obama: A Politician As Usual - Fog City Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Cartoon courtesy Mr. Fish. 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