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The New World Disorder by Victor Davis Hanson

Let us take stock of the world since 2008 .... Reset with Russia was an abject failure.... China remains China: an enigma ....The more Obama talks of global arms reduction and a nuclear-free world... the more likely South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan will be to make contingency plans to go nuclear.... Not since the end of World War II has the Mediterranean world been such a mess .... Syria is on its way to becoming Somalia .... Egypt is now a mix of Iran and Haiti .... In a year, Morsi may pull off the impossible feat of making Hosni Mubarak look good.... Leading from behind turned Libya from an odious but secure dictatorship into a chaotic terrorist haven. Hostage executions now characterize Algeria....

Relations with Israel have reached an all-time low, but will further descend with the ascent of John Brennan at the CIA and Chuck Hagel at Defense. Both will let Obama at last be Obama, and he, by admission, alone knows what is in Israel’s best interests. The Iranian nuclear weapon is a matter of when, not if....