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Smith on TV

The extent to which the neocons are concerned about a close Congressional race in the 9th District of Washington next year is shown by Rep. Adam Smith's increasingly numerous appearances on Mainstream TV -- and probably radio -- in the last year or so, particularly on the Obamaite MSNBC network. Smith was just on MSNBC last weekend making his case for a perpetual global interventionist doctrine which he, Bush II and Obama have helped to enshrine during their years in D.C. Recently, all-but-presidential-candidate for 2016, Governor Chris Christie (New Jersey), threw his lot firmly in with the Obama-Bush neocons as he criticized also semi-presidential-candidate, Senator Rand Paul (Kentucky), who has a wiser isolationist outlook on global affairs than any of the aforementioned politicians. Yet, everybody knows that terrorism has to be counteracted, there's no debate about that, but it's counteracted most effectively in a narrowly focused way, not some nebulous, semi-indiscriminate global intervention that feeds on itself, and thus is perpetual. Despite Obama's words a month or so ago that indicated he seemed to realize a wiser course, the president is famous for making remarks in speeches that he has no intention of carrying out. Adam Smith on TV just buttresses that philosophical dichotomy.

[revised on 8/5/13]

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