Daniel Larison tries to argue that Obama's
comments don't represent a 9/10 mindset because he was only
touting the prosecution of the first WTC bombing in the context of
talking about the narrower question of handling detainees. "The
candidate who has urged launching strikes into Pakistan and
supported the bombardment of Lebanon is not one who is leery of
using force to respond to terrorism and other security threats,"
Larison reassures.
Interestingly, in the very same post, Larison chides
conservatives who tried to convince themselves that Obama is
sympathetic to school choice. "I’ll keep saying
it until it sinks in: his nods to conservative reform proposals are
head fakes," Larison writes.
So Larison doesn't buy Obama's head fakes on domestic issues,
and yet he expects those of us who favor aggressive action against
terrorism to buy Obama's national security head fakes hook, line,
and sinker.
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