Behind the Obama agenda: the team Barack Obama has begun assembling suggests that, in terms of substance, the incoming administration may not be that different from the outgoing.

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Behind the Obama agenda: the team Barack Obama has begun assembling suggests that, in terms of substance, the incoming administration may not be that different from the outgoing.

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In April 1992, Senator Joe Biden--now our vice president-elect--penned an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal entitled "How I Learned to Love the New World Order." Senator Biden was miffed that the Journal had cast him as a "neo-isolationist" because he had objected to the foreign-policy strategy of then President George Bush (Senior), a strategy which Biden characterized as "America as 'Globocop.'" Sen. Biden wanted to make clear that far from being an "isolationist," he is a solid internationalist who subscribes to the doctrine of "collective security" under the United Nations Charter. He argued that "the Bush administration should be reallocating Pentagon funds to meet more urgent security needs: sustaining democracy in the former Soviet empire; supporting U.N. peaceke...

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