torsdag 10 december 2009

Konservativa prisar Obamas nobeltal

Mängder av konservativa var snabba att prisa president Obamas nobeltal. Den tidigare kritiken kring Obamas taktik i Afghanistan, hans syn på Guantanamo etc, lades helt på hyllan - och det faktum att USA:s mest liberale president på europeisk mark stod upp för amerikansk exceptionalism fick de flesta konservativa att sätta i halsen av glad förvåning:

“He clearly understood that he had been given the prize prematurely, but he used it as an occasion to remind people, first of all, as he said: that there is evil in the world,”
sa Republikanernas tidigare ledare för Representanthuset, Newt Gingrich, som sedan fortsatte: “I think having a liberal president who goes to Oslo on behalf of a peace prize and reminds the committee that they would not be free, they wouldn't be able to have a peace prize, without having force. I thought in some ways it's a very historic speech.”

Den Republikanske strategen Bradley A. Blakeman som arbetade för George W. Bush i Vita Huset sa:

“The irony is that George W. Bush could have delivered the very same speech. It was a truly an American President's message to the world,”


Den neokonservative Robert Kagan, som förra året var rådgivare till McCain-kampanjen, sa:

“Wow. what a shift of emphasis. I don't know what to say about an ‘Obama doctrine,’ because based on this speech, I think we are witnessing a substantial shift, back in the direction of a more muscular moralism, ala, Truman, Reagan.”


Och Walter Russell Mead, som jobbat för Republikanernas kanske nu levande mest legendariske utrikesminister Henry A. Kissinger, sa:

“If Bush had said these things the world would be filled with violent denunciations. When Obama says them, people purr. That is fine by me.”


Källa: Politico

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