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"Barack Obama may be going around inspiring people by proclaiming himself and his supporters &amp;quot;happy warriors for change,&amp;quot; but I don&amp;#x27;t think it&amp;#x27;ll be much of a change when he gets to Washington and decides to sends some real warriors into Pakistan. Obama&amp;#x27;s recent statements at the ABC/Facebook debates last week&amp;amp;#8212about supporting a military strike against Al-Qaeda in Pakistan if the Pakistani government wasn&amp;#x27;t cooperating and we had actionable intelligence&amp;amp;#8212aren&amp;#x27;t new; he took a lot of flak over this back in August. I don&amp;#x27;t get it. How is this support of the &amp;quot;war on terror&amp;quot;&amp;amp;#8212an abstract war that defines the Bush tenure&amp;amp;#8212compatible with the change he is supposed to represent? Call me crazy, but I thought that Obama&amp;#x27;s repeated message about how he never supported the Iraq war implied that his approach to so-called terrorist threats would be different right from the start. But even after Charlie Gibson pointed out mid-debate that &amp;quot;What you just outlined is essentially the Bush doctrine,&amp;quot; Obama stuck to his, er, guns. He again asserted that as president, he would make sure to strike first at anybody who might do America any harm&amp;amp;#8212sentiment that sounds not much different from the Bush rhetoric we&amp;#x27;ve dealt with for years. There are undeniable truths about Pakistan&amp;#x27;s more-than-stubborn leadership and growing terrorist presence that have given it the designation as &amp;quot;the world&amp;#x27;s most dangerous country.&amp;quot; The assassination of Benazhir Bhutto is evidence of that. But are the American people going to just take it when their new president comes out and says that this time it&amp;#x27;s different, that we should believe that Pakistani terrorist cells pose the greatest threat to us, leaving us no choice but to have a quickie war and bring stability to the Pakistani people? We&amp;#x27;ve heard that story. And maybe we&amp;#x27;ll buy it this time too. But that&amp;#x27;s not change! And Obama&amp;#x27;s going to break my heart if he keeps leading us on like that. What do you think? Is Obama serving up more of the same on this topic? &amp;amp;#8212Fern"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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