Bush Era Anti-Terror Policies Slowly Being Vindicated, Or The Change That So Many Believed In That Never Came

I think Monica Crowley goes a little overboard here, but I think she expresses some important points, mainly that many of the Bush-era policies are largely being vindicated by their continued use in this new administration.

Even some of the symbolic gestures (like the future closing of Gitmo) that were meant to repudiate Bush and assuage liberals are being questioned by Democratic leaders in Congress.

There has been a lot of relief on the part of neocons and hawks regarding Obama's approach since taking office. Conversely there has been a lot of disappointment in certain corners. During Obama's campaign a good friend and I wrote a number of very critical opinion pieces for our college's newspaper about Obama's apparent foreign policy naivete. Unfortunately (and not surprisingly) the articles have gone missing from the archives. I guess the lingering sting of our irrefutable arguments regarding Obama's bankrupt "change" rhetoric was too much for them to handle.