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being
very modest but at least hinting at being more open-ended, the kind of
stance that allows people to read into it more than is necessarily =
there.
This is characteristic of Obama's overall stance: "Yes we can to justice =
and
equality," but he doesn't go very far in presenting a road map. And his
more-or-less explicit pitch is that the most important thing is =
rekindling
the commitment, not just and not primarily among lawmakers, but among =
the
people.

And, yes, it might even translate into some very limited progress (from =
our
point of view) in terms of toning down the pressure on Cuba and so on in
foreign policy. There may be some domestic concessions as well. However,
anything major in either field will be the result of much broader
considerations and interactions.

Because you've got to remember, imperialism is above all a matter of
socio-economic and flowing from them political relations, and it may =
well be
that U.S. imperialism will be best served by a somewhat less
aggressive-looking stance in the world, especially since the
hyper-aggressiveness, you're either with us or you're a terrorist =
neo-con
approach proved to have insufficient muscle behind it to make it stick.=20

In the broader scheme of things, a more realistic, cogent and successful
U.S. foreign policy effort is NOT AT ALL necessarily a good thing,  just =
as
FDR's "Good Neighbor" policy, moving away from the "Big Stick" approach, =
is
one of the things that made possible in Cuba the stabilization of the
neocolonial regime and eventually the Batista dictatorship.

At any rate, on Obama's pronouncements and those of his aides, right now
what they're doing is trying to further eat away at Clinton's support by
depicting her as much as possible as the continuation of "failed =
policies,"
i.e., being old hat, the unchange candidate. This is MOSTLY about =
winning
the nomination, not MOSTLY about changing (at least stylistically) the =
way
the U.S. relates to the rest of the world. And of course this dovetails
nicely with what would undoubtedly be the Obama line of attack against
McCain in the fall is the Illinois Senator wins the nomination, as =
appears
increasingly likely.

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