Ackerman: Democrats’ national security policy then (’04) and now

Spencer Ackerman of our sister site the Washington Independent argues that Barack Obama’s national security advisers and the policies they advocate are a far cry from the failed Kerry strategy of 2004:

“When the Democrats talk tonight about national security, 2004 will appear like a long-forgotten, sepia-toned era. The campaign of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) represents a quantum leap in terms of both style and substance. Rather than arguing that they can more competently execute Bush administration policies, as they did in 2004, the 2008-vintage Democratic Party, led by Obama, is presenting a more thoroughgoing critique. It begins with a clear timetable for withdrawal from Iraq. But it does not stop there.”

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