If Barack Obama becomes the Commander in Chief of the United States of America, preventing or halting a genocide would not be a good enough reason for the deployment of U.S. troops. He would not use our military to come to the aid of people suffering unspeakable horrors.
Specifically, atrocities as extreme as genocide would not prompt a President Obama to keep U.S. troops in Iraq.
While he would try to assist via diplomatic efforts, he's saying that he would basically stand idly by while a disaster with an enormous human toll played out.
SUNAPEE, N.H. -- Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said Thursday the United States cannot use its military to solve humanitarian problems and that preventing a potential genocide in Iraq isn't a good enough reason to keep U.S. forces there.
"Well, look, if that's the criteria by which we are making decisions on the deployment of U.S. forces, then by that argument you would have 300,000 troops in the Congo right now — where millions have been slaughtered as a consequence of ethnic strife — which we haven't done," Obama said in an interview with The Associated Press.
"We would be deploying unilaterally and occupying the Sudan, which we haven't done. Those of us who care about Darfur don't think it would be a good idea," he said.
Obama, a first-term senator from Illinois, said it's likely there would be increased bloodshed if U.S. forces left Iraq.
"Nobody is proposing we leave precipitously. There are still going to be U.S. forces in the region that could intercede, with an international force, on an emergency basis," Obama said between stops on the first of two days scheduled on the New Hampshire campaign trail. "There's no doubt there are risks of increased bloodshed in Iraq without a continuing U.S. presence there."
The greater risk is staying in Iraq, Obama said.
"It is my assessment that those risks are even greater if we continue to occupy Iraq and serve as a magnet for not only terrorist activity but also irresponsible behavior by Iraqi factions," he said.
Potential genocide?
No problem.
Obama has no problem with saying that we should bail out of Iraq and leave the innocents to fend for themselves, even if it means a death sentence for them.
Obama's theory is that if we can't help everywhere, then we shouldn't help anywhere.
Obama wants U.S. troops out of Iraq so badly that he'd be willing to let innocent people of Iraq become victims of genocide. He could order a troop withdrawal with a clear conscience even if it meant ushering in a large-scale humanitarian disaster.
That's pretty extreme. Obama certainly isn't moderate on this issue at all.
I have a feeling that this isn't going to go over too well with Obama cheerleader captain Oprah. I think she's anti-genocide, but I could be wrong.
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