Atlantic Community:Global Must Read Article "Obama-Care Has Global Implications"

Michael Young, The National | March 26, 2010

While the passage of sweeping health care reform should be cause for celebration in the US, it has only further mobilized Obama’s adversaries in the Republican Party. ++ “Mr Obama’s willingness to go all the way on health care may well define his legacy. ++ But it will also hinder him when it comes to foreign affairs, and nowhere will this have more of an impact than in the broader Middle East.” ++ The financial burden and intense polarization of health care will give Obama little flexibility to change course in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Iran.

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Sat, Mar 27th 2010, 22:45

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I think it has more humanitarian reverberations to invest in health care rather than in war machinery & expenditures. It seems Mr. Obama may also attack problems like hunger and malnutrition from which some areas in the world are struck more severely.

If this assumption turns out to come into effect, the American people may be able recover their popularity to some extent even in this decade.

I think such a development may be for the benefit of all men in some respects, since USA has been the greatest innovating country in the 2nd half of the 20th century and there does not seem to be any reason to conserve their reputation so long as they do not get involved in needless conflicts ending up in bloodshed and get stuck with trouble.

In any case I congradulate Mr. Obama and his people for moving towards a more democratical society. It seems the president Obama may eventually deserve the Nobel Prize for Peace indeed.

Tue, Mar 30th 2010, 03:00

Patrick Edwin Moran, Wake Forest University, Platinum Contributor (200)

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Historically, what has happened to factions that whip up hysteria and hatred?

Mr. Young's implicit evaluation of the maturity of the American electorate is very disquieting, as is its support of observations that indicate that authoritarian voices are becoming heard more and more avidly in the United States.