Dinesh D'Souza has got Newt Gingrich's pique in his characterization of Barack Obama as an anti-colonial. It rings mostly true to me, but I wasn't blown away by the insight. It doesn't take much to interpolate Obama's worldview given his attraction to Black Liberation Theology. There's always some Franz Fanon in there.
But here's the other side. What is the perception of the pro-colonial that Obama is supposed to be the counter to? Let's imagine for a moment that everybody who likes Obama's direction is not strictly an America-hater per se, and that they actually have an articulate version of what America does specifically wrong in its strategic foreign policy. Let's for example take Fareed Zakaria's sort of basic containment attitude towards Saddam's Iraq as something more than an anti-neocon reactionary position.
Where and how is America disqualified over five presidencies from being the world's cop because of its colonialism? How does Obama incrementally disable that without dismantling the Pentagon? What is the American colonial position?
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