Obama Adopting and Modifying Bush Policy

This is a good thing after all. In regards to terror policy its clear Obama has been tweaking the edges but leaving the door open to many of the policies Bush implemented.

March 16 (Bloomberg) -- The change sweeping Washington has been slow to show up in President Barack Obama’s legal stances on issues such as terrorism and racial preferences.

The new administration’s court filings so far have been marked less by repudiation of former President George W. Bush than by nuance and in some cases continuity. Even when breaking with Bush, Obama’s lawyers often have either laid out a middle- ground position or avoided taking a firm stand.“What we’re seeing are carefully calibrated positions that are moving away from the Bush administration, but doing so cautiously,” said Steven Shapiro, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union in New York.

Those stances have left legal conservatives applauding the Democratic administration’s approach on some issues, particularly terrorism. Meanwhile, liberals are left to wait for the Obama administration to become more forceful in its legal arguments as the president gets additional members of his team in place.

Keep waiting, as Obama attempts to scale back the military as a means to combat terror, he is going to become more reliant on intel, covert actions, and tactics that alow the US to combat our shadowy enemies without the open ended committments we have in Iraq and Afghanistan.