Sic Transit Obama

The New York Times yesterday reported that Barack Obama says that if Pakistan won't eradicate terrorists within its borders, the United States should go in and eradicate them itself.

What the fuck?

Does that differ in any way from Bush's current excuse for remaining in Iraq? Or from the preemptive strike doctrine that got us there in the first place?

How hard is it to see that we're not going to be safe as long as we continue to act in a way that causes much of the world to hate us? And hasn't the Iraq debacle made perfectly clear that military action to eradicate terrorists simply creates more terrorists?

So there you have it. Democrats or Republicans? Cancer or polio.