complains obama isn't hawkish enough   




in a new interview with britain<u+2019>s sky news, former nato secretary-general anders fogh rasmussen brought out the old narrative of america as the <u+201c>world<u+2019>s policeman,<u+201d> but with a lot more upbeat of an attitude about it than one would generally see. 




rasmussen criticized president obama for not being hawkish enough, saying his successor needs to be much more interventionist, and declaring <u+201c> we need america as the world<u+2019>s policeman, <u+201d> adding that the us needs to <u+201c>restore international law and order<u+201d> through wars. 




rasmussen, who was always a relative hawk in the post but seems to have taken it to an entirely new level, set out a series of things the us needs to fix militarily, including iraq, syria, libya, russia, china, and north korea. this of course closely mirrors recent pentagon talk of wars in the decades to come. 




the timing of his calls for extreme us bellicosity are centered on trying to influence the upcoming us election in favor of democratic nominee hillary clinton, who has campaigned heavily on picking fights in syria and against russia. rasmussen underscored this fact by declaring donald trump, who openly said the us cannot be the world<u+2019>s police, as <u+201c>very dangerous for the world.<u+201d>
former nato chief: we need us as <u+2018>world<u+2019>s policeman<u+2019>
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