Obama Shares Bush's Goals

When political legitimacy becomes contingent on recognition by a superpower, populations lose their right to self-determination and democracy becomes a selective tool.

Huckabee is also a compulsive warmonger. At a time when his boss, Trump, is pushing for a deal with Iran, Huckabee clearly wants war.

Under present conditions, Washington seeks leverage without entanglement. Restraint persists not from trust, but from calculation.

[T]he U.S. government itself is a major supplier to the cartels that the White House claims to be pursuing with all its might.