The Obam - "duh" Doctrine

So apparently conservatives are all surprised and a flutter that our Democratic President, or as they would say "Democrat" President stated in his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech that he believes that war is necessary some times.

Wow. I know this is really controversial and I can't believe that a Democrat would ever believe that sometimes war is justified to meet threats and human rights violations. That we must do our best to negotiate and use other means of persuasion first, but that force can and must be used when the time calls for it against leaders like Hitler and Milosevic and whoever the bad guys are in Darfur.

Duh. This is not crazy political science or theory here. The Bush Doctrine on the other hand, while admirably liberal in policy was not realistic. To be fair, the doctrine was really half crazy conservative and half crazy liberal.

The Bush Doctrine essentially is a mix of two primary concepts preemption and freedom in the form of Democratic government for everybody on the earth. The first principle was preemption; we must attack possible threats first before they become real threats. Unfortunately, that concept isn't legal nor is it a smart use of our limited military power, as we have learned recently troops cost money (money we don't have). How can you guess the right country to attack? Iran may attack Israel, at what point are we justified in bombing their nuclear facilities. The mere chance of an attack is not reason enough to start a war.

The second concept is freedom should be everywhere and we should use military force and diplomatic isolationism to press countries to move towards democratic governments. Sometimes a military dictatorship can be our friend. For example, when Gen. Pervez Musharraf was President of Pakistan he did a much better job than the current president in fighting Pakistani Taliban and Al-Qaida even though the current President has created a more democratic government.

The Obama Doctrine basically states that we're going to go after and kill some bad guys who aren't interested in negotiating or peace. We're going to negotiate with the weirdos who may or may not have bad intentions, people like Kim Jong-Il and Ahmedinejad. And we'll only use force if it's for our absolute security or if it's a real crime against humanity such as sectarian violence in Darfur, but Europe needs to step up to the plate and help. Because unlike other doctrines of past presidents we don't want to be the only policeman in the world, it costs a ton and it's not worth the problems. We've got problems here that we need to fix. As Obama correctly stated in his Afghanistan speech, "the nation I'm most interested in building is our own."

Tip to the world. We're back to the time when America won't attack unless you've demonstrated a history of being an evil-doer. So that's yes to Al-Qaida and no to Iran, because Iran's people are more pro-American than their government, so isolating that country further pushes those fans away, get it?

Just remember this bad guys, "Nobody makes me bleed my own blood."