Barack Obama’s National Security Working Group:

• Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
• Senator David Boren, former Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
• Secretary of State Warren Christopher
• Greg Craig, former director of the State Department Office of Policy Planning
• Secretary of the Navy Richard Danzig
• Representative Lee Hamilton, former Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee
• Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder
• Dr. Tony Lake, former National Security Advisor
• Senator Sam Nunn, former Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
• Secretary of Defense William Perry
• Dr. Susan Rice, former Assistant Secretary of State
• Representative Tim Roemer, 9/11 Commissioner
• Jim Steinberg, former Deputy National Security Advisor

Digby’s response:

I’m not sure what to make of this list. I assume that most of it is to let the military and foreign policy establishment know that he isn’t going to be employing kids from his Facebook list to run American foreign policy. (Hey, don’t laugh. Bush hired interns from the Heritage Foundation to build a new nation in Iraq. It happens.)

Disingenuous confusion. Assumption that Obama’s warmongering actions must not reflect his secret true intentions, which are—-what? Pacifism? Anti-imperialism? And the evidence of his true intentions is—-what? When he showers Israel with his love, warmongers against Iran and goes to fucking Madeleine Albright for national security advice? The eternal idiot hope of U.S. progressives that the Democrats will bring fundamental change as soon as they get just a little more power.

And then, the distracting Bush joke: don’t think too much about Obama’s failings, always remember the real enemy. Because that gang of war criminals is so much better than Bush’s gang?

Perfect.

(via Arthur Silber)