Obo The Isolationist

The belief that the United States can catalyze positive change in the world has long motivated US foreign policy.

With this hopeful determination, America and its allies defeated Nazism, overcame Communism and now have undertaken the battle against global terrorism. Along the way, we've engaged in numerous humanitarian relief efforts, and promoted democracy and human rights worldwide.

Yet this policy of principled global citizenship is under attack - by a man who could well be our next president.

Speaking in Troy, Mich., on Monday, Sen. Obama declared that George Bush and John McCain - Obama's speeches always pair those names together, no matter the issue - opted to "extend" the war on Iraq rather than "working to fix our economy."

The "candidate of change" then listed what the funds spent on the war could buy in Michigan: "For what taxpayers here in Oakland County have spent in Iraq, you could be providing health care for nearly 900,000 people, or offering more than 200,000 college scholarships for Michigan students or hiring more than 30,000 elementary school teachers."

Obama's remarks beg two major questions.

First: Does the senator - who has now spent almost as much time campaigning for president as he has performing his Senate duties - understand the principle of budgets?

Health care and education are typically funded separately from national defense and foreign policy in congressional bills. To be sure, every outlay carries an opportunity cost to some extent - that is, the "cost" of not spending the money elsewhere."

Translation: Instead of protecting America and its allies from those who would destroy all that is good in the name of all that is evil, Obo would marshal resources to create even more levels of entitlement to assure that America slides further down the slope of despair. We've seen the results of what the democrats did with the black family, and guess what?

Now they want us all that way.