Obama, Vietnam and Judicial Activism
Written by: Aaron Katsman | October 29, 2008
I’d like to point out a couple of very interesting reads that I stumbled upon today. the first was actually written by my brother, Abe. It appears in the Jpost In the article Katsman compares the current situation in Iraq to that of Vietnam. Politically, similarities abound. “Some quick history: Finally concluding that they could not defeat the American-backed Republic of South Vietnam, the communist North Vietnam signed the Paris Agreement in January, 1973, which called for cessation of attacks by the North and recognition of Saigon’s fragile democratic government. America withdrew its troops, but continued air support and arms to the anticommunist, increasingly stable South Vietnamese, as well as to its neighboring anticommunist Republic of Cambodia.
But a hated President Nixon resigned in scandal, and his obsessive, personally vindictive critics then elected to Congress in 1974 could not bear to support his arguably significant foreign policy success in a war they had vehemently opposed. Within months, Congressional Democrats proceeded to kick the legs out from under the South Vietnamese, withdrawing all American personnel, and cutting off all aid and arms - leaving all of Indochina to the tender mercies of the communist forces.”
Obama’s cut and run strategy could potentially cause bedlam. Sounds familiar. We are supposed to learn from history, no?
In an article in the online Wall Street Journal, Steven G. Calabresi has a very interesting post on Obama’s judicial philosophy. In an issue that has gained almost zero exposure during the election, Calabresi points out just how far to left Obama is vis-a-vis his judicial philosophy, and with many potential Supreme Court openings, he could move the court way to left for years to come.
“Speaking in July 2007 at a conference of Planned Parenthood, he said: “[W]e need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom. The empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor, or African-American, or gay, or disabled, or old. And that’s the criteria by which I’m going to be selecting my judges.”
Wow. Is Obama advocating that we should ignore the law, and rule in favor of those who need empathy?
I’d love to hear an Obama surrogate explain this one.
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Aaron Katsman is Managing Editor of the Israel Opportunity Investor newsletter. He is lead portfolio manager for the Israel Growth Portfolio and Managing Director of America Israel Investment Associates, LLC. For more information, go to www.israelnewsletter.com or call 1-888-327-6179, or email aaron@profile-financial.com.
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