Geoffrey Britain@51
Obama’s problem isn’t with his exaggerated, I believe, base. He’s loosing the squishy center. It seems to my simple mind that National Security is the worst problem for him. Scott Brown certainly opposed Health Care, but the applause line was “buy weapons to fight terrorists, not lawyers to defend them.”
Of course my suggestion is facile, even Howard Zinn like, if you will. Comforting the Saudis and the Gulf sheikhdoms, and enhancing defense of the oil transit corridor is rational and expected. The deployment could very well be an extension of Bush era planning with some spin to the cover story.