Conservatives discovered the secret of organizing mass public rallies, while Obama's famous 2008 grass roots network remains strangely silent. Optimistic conservatives predicted that it will soon be 1994 in America again. Conservatives cheered--but liberals bemoaned--his strong commitment to the [[Afghanistan War]], where he has tripled the American combat forces. They cheered as well his Nobel speech in Oslo, where to the dismay of pacifists he proclaimed a "just war" in Afghanistan, insisted on America's duty to fight it, and explicitly repudiated the nonviolent alternative of [[Martin Luther King]]. | Conservatives discovered the secret of organizing mass public rallies, while Obama's famous 2008 grass roots network remains strangely silent. Optimistic conservatives predicted that it will soon be 1994 in America again. Conservatives cheered--but liberals bemoaned--his strong commitment to the [[Afghanistan War]], where he has tripled the American combat forces. They cheered as well his Nobel speech in Oslo, where to the dismay of pacifists he proclaimed a "just war" in Afghanistan, insisted on America's duty to fight it, and explicitly repudiated the nonviolent alternative of [[Martin Luther King]]. |