Now, you may think that is a moral imperative, as it is, and domestically too, but remember when the wonderful Dixie Chicks were demonized for it? Neocons, Christian rightists, and the general boobeoisie tried to destroy the group for saying, at a Paris concert, that as Texans, they were especially ashamed of Bush. Country music stations organized bonfires of their CDs and boycotts of their concerts, and the Chicks have never recovered. Isn't it ironic, Glenn Greenwald notes, that Michael Huckabee can go to a foreign country and criticize the US prez, and no one thinks ill of him? I should note that unlike Glenn and Phil Weiss, I do not believe that Obama's foreign policy, in the Middle East or elsewhere, is much different from Bush's.