The New War President

The writer Mark Davis is correct: "...of the nearly 70 million people who voted to make Barack Obama president, a sizeable portion did so because they were sick of war."

Now they're sick of Barack. (And one can only only wonder what the Nobel Committee is thinking on the day after Obama announces a massive military escalation in Afghanistan.)

Of course, G.W. Bush was clumsy, arrogant, clamoring and evangelical in his pledge to a global war-without-end. In stark contrast, Obama is smooth and effervescent, poised and cadenced, while still drawing from heady notions of America's "moral source of authority" on planet earth.

The new war president deftly employs Orwellian language that is silky and serene--yet no less twisted or deadly.

War, he tells us, equals peace.

Prosperity, he tells us, is the highest power. God bless America.

And so the end result for America and the world is the same: Obama picks up where Bush left off. Nonstop like the Everready bunny with a bayonet, the unchecked U.S. military industrial complex continues its latest death trample across the globe in a war without end.

And the only difference is that the new president has brown skin, a platinum tongue, and a dubious Nobel Peace Prize collecting dust on a shelf. He is the new war president. And war equals peace. Up equals down. And the right wing is the new center.

In him we should not trust.