Posted by
Longplay on Tuesday, October 21, 2008 9:31:29 PM
In his excellent NRO article "Right You Are, Joe", Pete Hegseth critiques Senator Biden's comments about an Obama administration's having to face an international crisis very early on. I've read several articles discussing Biden's comments and all seem to focus on Barack's perceived weakness as encouraging our enemies to provocative action. Indeed, Mr. Hegseth's article is subtitled "America's enemies will see Obama as weak".
I think it's more that, and worse. I worry that Senator Obama actually agrees with the goals of some of those enemies. After all, Hamas and Hugo Chavez aren't attracted to the idea of an Obama administration merely because he's weak. It is quite possible that they believe Obama shares their ideals. They may be incorrect in that belief, but Obama's ties to such people as Bill Ayres and Rashid Khalidi certainly make that belief plausible, to our enemies, and to informed Americans.
And when Senator Biden implies that we may not at first glance think Obama's responses to these crises are the correct ones, it suggests that, indeed, they won't be correct - that Obama will willingly accomodate aggressive actions. By asking his audience to support Barack in his response, Biden seems to be saying that eventually we'll "come around" to Obama's way of thinking.