Midterm Elections a Big Win for Hawks
Pro-Intervention Republicans to See Major Gains
in Influence
by Jason Ditz, November 02, 2010
Though the reality is that most of the Congressional races in the US
amounted to a race between a pro-war candidate and an even more pro-war
candidate and most of the discussions of foreign policy between the two
centered on which was which, the results of the election as they trickle
in reveal a big win for the “even more pro-war candidate” types both in
seats and influence.
As the
Republicans consolidate control over the House of Representatives and
score big gains in the Senate, their most hawkish members are eagerly
snatching up key foreign policy positions, with Howard McKeon (R –
CA)
looking to head the Armed Services Committee and bringing his support
for endless war and “modernization” of nuclear weapons with
him.
Other
representatves and senators, including Sen. McCain (R – AZ), Rep.
Ros-Lehtinen (R – FL) and Rep. Eric Cantor (R – VA) also look to
dramatically increase their influence, and to the extent any of them
criticizes the Obama Administration’s hawkish positions it seems,
invariably, to be for being not hawkish enough.
Congressional rubber stamps for the wars are nothing new, but they seem
poised to continue in a big way for the next two years (and indeed the
forseeable future after that), and any hope the remaining antiwar Dems
had for closing Guatanamo Bay or securing nuclear arms reductions will
likely go out the window.
http://news.antiwar.com/2010/11/02/midterm-elections-a-big-win-for-hawks/
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