News story here.

It's been amusing how Obama's military policy has consisted of basically doing exactly what Bush's administration would have done if Bush were somehow still in office. Heck, even most of the military leadership is the same. Another of the many Great Reality Checks Democrats have hit since getting power a few years back.

Not that I'm really complaining about that, but Obama made a lot of noises at his anti-war base to get elected, and then basically threw them under the bus.

What's really interesting now is that some of the real libertarian/conservative types coming up through the Republican ranks are a lot more isolationist than your typical "old school" conservatives. A significant characteristic of the Ron Paul style of conservative is opposition to almost all overseas involvements. It may be that this will create some odd bedfellows in the pro-war/anti-war tensions.