What “incredibly tough” foreign policy actions is Obama preparing?

Original article, by Patrick Martin and subheaded Biden’s chilling remarks at fundraiser, via World Socialist Web Site:

In remarks made over the weekend in Seattle, Democratic vice presidential candidate Joseph Biden warned that Barack Obama, if elected president, would be compelled to take deeply unpopular actions in both domestic and foreign policy within months of taking office.

Remember that Obama has promised to increase the size of the military by 100,000. Remember, also, that he has voted to fund the Iraq debacle every time except last Octoberish (which was due to the primaries coming up – he voted for more funding once it was clear he was going to be nominee). What could be unpopular on the foreign policy front? On the domestic side, there won’t be any money for general programs if the military gets expanded (not to mention the trillion dollar black hole of bailing out the banksters and the bosses, which Obama was complicit in passing).

In closed-door gatherings with two audiences of Democratic Party insiders and fundraisers, Biden forecast a major international crisis in the first six months of an Obama administration.

Biden’s a hawk. Why would another country choose to test the US when there’s a hawk sitting near the seat of power? My guess is that Obama and Biden will be looking for anything that can be considered a provocation. One wonders if they would consider the recent Georgian war as a provocation?

The most politically significant portion of Biden’s remarks came when he admitted that the decisions of an Obama-Biden administration were likely to be deeply unpopular, and he called on the Democratic Party regulars to stand behind the new president even when public opinion turned against him.

Get in line and shut up! Biden’s warning can’t be clearer. We know best, so trust us. You’re either with us or against us. Obama/Biden don’t understand that’s where we’re at today, and their supposed to change that. So much for ‘hope,’ eh?

Here is the voice of a longtime representative of the financial aristocracy, voicing his contempt for public opinion-“if decisions are popular, they’re probably not sound”-and warning his wealthy audience that the new Obama-Biden administration will have to defy public opinion to carry out its policies. Biden’s language suggests that the ferocity of the new administration’s response will shock not only public opinion, but even its own supporters.

You’ve been warned by Joe. Thank the political Gods he shoots off his mouth. Can we really trust these men anywhere near the corridors of power?

Foreign policy journals and pundits linked to the Democratic Party have undoubtedly been discussing many such doomsday scenarios, and Biden’s language suggests that the use of the US nuclear arsenal, the world’s largest, is under consideration by those who are formulating the foreign and military policy of an Obama-Biden administration.

Boom!

Biden’s expectation of widespread popular hostility to an Obama administration applies not only to foreign and military policy, but to domestic policy. He told the Seattle audience, “I promise you, you all are going to be sitting here a year from now going, ‘Oh my God, why are they there in the polls, why is the polling so down, why is this thing so tough?’ We’re going have to make some incredibly tough decisions in the first two years.”

We can look forward to an austerity budget, except for the bankers, bosses and generals. The money that could be used for rebuilding our industrial base won’t be there.

Obama won the Democratic presidential nomination by presenting himself as the more consistent antiwar candidate, and the Democratic ticket in public pledges to end the war in Iraq and adopt a less militaristic stance. But behind closed doors, before select audiences of the financial and political elite, Biden has given a glimpse of the real perspective of the Democratic wing of American imperialism.

Keep all of this in mind as you head to the voting booth November 4. There are alternatives available, and some may even not be tied to our military industrial bankster cartel.