The Battle of Washington

Tom Engelhardt suggests that "it looks as if we are about to have a civilian-military encounter of the first order in which Obama will indeed need to take responsibility for difficult actions" — How to Trap a President in a Losing War. He argues that whether "an already heavily militarized foreign policy geared to endless global war is] surrendered to the generals.... is a question that is not likely to go away and that may determine what this country becomes."

Justin Raimondo reports on the "battle shaping up for hearts and minds – not in the wilds of Afghanistan, but in the White House" — Who is Barack Obama? "On one side of the barricades stand Hillary Clinton, ... who demanded of her husband, then-President Bill Clinton, to stop shilly-shallying and begin the bombing of Belgrade," and "[o]n the other side – Vice President Joe Biden, who wants to implement what is essentially the George Will plan for the Afghan front."