Is Obama a Socialist?

[denuseri]

Some Americans (in particular a certain congressman and some of his friends and a few others: who almost single handedly appeared to have started the CIA on the path of funding, training, and supporting soviet occupation opposition forces) tried to keep the congressional money train rolling after the war, only to have the rug pulled out from under them because it didn’t matter enough since the soviets were gone to the majority.

That was a huge mistake imho and we are still paying for it today.

As for supporting Israel...well we have been stalwart allies of theirs for decades now, and the House of Saud and it would be a very big mistake to withdraw our support now.

Israeli territorial gains however are almost entirely in response to the different times they have been attacked by their neighbors. They have good reason to be paranoid of those who have done nothing but speak of (and attempted to) destroying them since their country came once again into existence. If the people of Syria, Jordan, Egypt and other Islamic republics would embrace religious freedom like most of the rest of the free world and stop oppressing their own people in restrictive theocracies; things wouldn’t be the way they are over there. Such backward attitudes in the face of progress quite literally ruined the country of my birth (Lebanon which was doing well for a short time with its confessionals until it was subsumed by outside forces) and I pray every day that they will one day cease so that Arab, Christian, Jew, and whoever else can live in peace with each other for a change.

I fail to see however, what any of this most recent trend in sidebars has to do with Obama being a socialist or not because: a close study of history reveals that foreign policy in general (however its touted or promised to be in an election) is simply not executed along party lines or political party platform agendas no matter which way one cuts it in actual practice.