George W Bush made democracy-support a central theme of his presidency. Barack Obama, by contrast, has downplayed it. Yet the latter's approach may achieve more effective results.
There are more than a thousand foreign military bases worldwide which have become the infrastructure for imperial wars and have severe social and environmental impacts locally that have prompted growing resistance.
Reading Arroyo the riot act would not be a gesture of benevolence on
the part of Washington. It is one that would serve the US’s current
interests as Obama discerns them.
