That's how Celeste Ward Gventer describes Obama's new Atrocities Prevention Board:
It risks becoming little more than the latest justification for continual U.S. interventionism. The country is entering a difficult period of austerity, and the president has called for a focus on "nation-building here at home." America's real and enduring financial woes are obvious; even China is taking this moment to lecture the United States on its "addiction to debts." A vanishingly small segment of the population has been deployed to two wars for nearly a decade at a cost of more than 6,000 dead, more than 42,000 wounded, and somewhere north of $2 trillion spent. The results of this investment are, at best, mixed. Now seems like a good time for "bringing our foreign policy home."
Jay Ulfelder, who had supported the Board's creation, counters. But you'd think after the Libya debacle this kind of liberal utopianism might be waning. Sadly, it isn't. By the way, heard from all those pious neocons lately on their latest little war? Radio silence from Wieseltier and Kaplan. But they were in a win-win position, because they can always blame Obama for not being more interventionist.
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