Go read that post again. Kind of like deja vu from a few years back, eh? In the other direction, of course.

I can still remember a British columnist back in 2004:

"A point I frequently find myself having to make to friends in this country is that, occasionally, some things are true even if Bush believes them."

I supported Obama's continuation of the drone attacks, and his general direction toward private space systems, whether or not he had real philosophical baselines for these things. I don't complain when good things happen, even if it's by chance. But yes, his intrisic ideology is toxic, same as Pelosi's and many others. The sort of mind that can use the term "economic self interest" as a profound insult.

You can see that his current position is not plausible: some kind of "protection" mission, badly defined, combined with the assurance that we are not going to do anything to remove the cause of the violence from power. Although we kind of wish he'd just go away. Ironically, this is basically Iraq during the "No Fly" era, during which Saddam had no major problem wiping out the Marsh Arabs and cruelly suppressing his own people. Just without aircraft.