No American can take satisfaction in knowing that our
President has been knocked down by reality.
One might even suggest that world events have blindsided him, except the
failure to see was willful.
Barack Obama, from his American mea culpa speech in Cairo
to the cancellation of anti-missile projects in Eastern Europe and the re-set
of relations with Russia, has chosen to live in a world of his own making.
It was as if history didn’t matter. National interests and ambitions were
irrelevant to the conduct of the world’s nations and peoples. Bad things happened in the world, the
president evidently believed, due to misunderstandings and an assertive America
seeking to force its will on others. The
resentments and animosity it generated were to be expected.
And so, Obama would make things right. And why not?
Even the Nobel Prize committee had been persuaded by the President’s
call for hope and change and based the award upon his promise alone.
Idealism can be so appealing. All can be so well. Would that the real world conformed.
One can’t help thinking of Woodrow Wilson and his plea
for a League of Nations in 1919. He
fervently felt that providing a forum for the world’s actors would allow
disputes and misunderstandings to be resolved peacefully, given his implicit
belief that people and nations mainly just want to get along.
Wrong.
Some wish to dominate, to rule, to conquer. Or, in the case of ISIS, to convert or kill.
Reality has certainly long been an unwelcome interloper
in the Obama household. Now that the intruder
has upended the place settings, the host has no choice but to call out the rude
behavior.
The arrogance has been exposed as unwarranted and the
idealism as foolish. America laments…
why did it take so long?
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