Obama And Globalism

Daniel Larison at Eunomia nails both globalist parties with this one:

The most remarkable part of Rich Lowry’s column today was this line:

Berlin at times sounded as much like Obama’s coming-out party as the candidate of a transnational progressivism — in which global norms are more important than sovereign nations — as his audition as commander-in-chief.

What struck me about this passage was its implicit pretense that McCain and the administration Lowry et al. have supported dutifully for years are not similarly transnational. For reasons I outlined yesterday, Republicans are able to use nationalist language and symbolism to their advantage, but to the extent that “transnational progressivism” is defined by endorsing the idea that “global norms are more important than sovereign nations” most of the leadership of both parties, including the current Republican nominee, can be described in the same terms.

Of course Republicans do the same thing. Neocons justify DC's neo-imperialist policies with other-worldly theories about America's
"universal nationalism," a linguistic pretzel only a Neocon could swallow and keep down -- or want to.