Democrat presidential candidate Barack Hussein Obama (are we really ready for this guy?) kicks off his campaign by using the Left’s chickenhawk ploy to insult John Howard, the prime minister of America’s most venerable ally, suggesting Australia hasn’t done enough in Iraq.
As Wretchard notes, the Aussie’s 1,400 troops are proportionately about right for a nation of only 20 million. In any case, in addition to the chickenhawk argument being used mainly by chickens, Obama-rama is anti-war. So, apart from being politically boring with nothing new to say–at best, a black Dennis Kucinich–in my book he’s also irrelevant. Except, as Howard says, to OBL who would welcome a withdrawal from OBL’s proposed new caliphate. But perhaps I err. Even Kucinich would have more guts than to put off his proposed withdrawal from Iraq thirteen months in the future. Now who’s the chickenhawk?
*HT to Roger L. Simon
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