The Audacity of False Hope

"The idea that anything has really changed, at least in the realm of foreign policy, with the ascension of Barack Obama to the White House, is now completely debunked by the administration’s latest pronouncement on the 'Af-Pak' war," begins Justin Raimondo — Af-Pak Fever. The author insists that "our new president has made his first major foreign policy pronouncement, [and] the time to give Obama the benefit of every doubt is over."

Alan Bock confesses to have "hoped for a few moments that President Barack Obama... might have come up with a logical strategy for Afghanistan" only to be disappointed by the realization that "President Obama is doubling down on the Bush approach" — Operation Incoherence.

Ray McGovern admits that he "was wrong" in "saying that it would be naïve to take too seriously presidential candidate Barack Obama’s rhetoric regarding the need to escalate the war in Afghanistan" — Welcome to Vietnam, Mr. President.