[Marxism] "managing the foreign policy apparatus not in Obama's hands alone"

[Dbachmozart at aol.com]

as to the point that we shouldn't get too bent out of shape because of  
Obama's picks, and that we should wait and see what he himself does ---
 
an excerpt from today's Democracy Now radio program --
 
Robert Dreyfuss --
 
The second point I would make, is that the people of the next levels down  at 
both the State and Defense Department, is going to be very very important.  
And there is no indication at all the Barack Obama intends to oversee that  
process. Who Robert Gates keeps on at the Defense Department including some  
fairly troubling characters in important posts there, is something that we’re  
going to have to watch very closely., and as well at the state department,  
whether Hillary Clinton turns to people, including some of the muscular  democratic 
hawks like Richard Holbrooke and in particular Dennis Ross, who is  now 
ensconced at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, which is an  AIPAC 
spin-of, and brings these people in to help run the State Department is  another 
big question. So, there’s a lot of aspects of managing a huge foreign  policy 
apparatus that cannot reside in the hands of Barack Obama alone. He is  not 
going to do this, CHANGE WILL NOT COME FROM HIM  PERSONALLY EXCEPT IN THE 
BROADEST OUTLINE. THE  IMPLEMENTATION OF FOREIGN POLICY IS GOING TO COME  FROM THE 
PEOPLE THAT HE PICKS. ( my caps ).
 
full --
 
<http://www.democracynow.org/2008/12/2/change_or_more_of_the_same>
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