Mark Warner gave a beautiful speech at YearlyKos today about getting a fair shot at the American dream that could have been lifted right of the frontpages of dKos. But what about his foreign policy? He spoke of wanting to unite America's friends and divide its enemies, in contrast to what the current administration has done for the last few years. But can he really do this if he's bought into the conventional, neocon wisdom about who America's enemies are?
When Warner spoke on stage about the current policy of borrowing from China to buy oil from countries that don't like us, who did he give as an example? Venezuela, Condoleezza's favorite Latin American whipping boy and one of Rummy's new Hitlers.
When he spoke about the biggest threats we face in the WMD proliferation arena, he named Iran, a country with whom America has a troubled recent history. As someone recently said, in the current political atmosphere, where the drumbeat to war seems only barely to have been averted, criticism of Iran isn't just criticism of Iran.
