While this commentary by Fouad Ajami is encouraging for America in the long run, it is way too little, way too late, to help avert the catastrophe looming among Iran's 18,000 centrifuges.
NB: That's right; there are as many centrifuges in Iran as there are Starbucks stores in all the world!
Back to Ajami, because it is rather uplifting even if not terribly consequential. yet.
.... During his first campaign, Mr. Obama had paid tribute to Ronald Reagan as a "transformational" president and hinted that he aspired to a presidency of that kind. But the Reagan presidency was about America, and never about Ronald Reagan. Reagan was never a scold or a narcissist. He stood in awe of America, and of its capacity for renewal. There was forgiveness in Reagan, right alongside the belief in the things that mattered about America—free people charting their own path.
If Barack Obama seems like a man alone, with nervous Democrats up for re-election next year running for cover, and away from him, this was the world he made. No advisers of stature can question his policies; the price of access in the Obama court is quiescence before the leader's will. The imperial presidency is in full bloom.
There are no stars in the Obama cabinet today, men and women of independent stature and outlook. It was after a walk on the White House grounds with his chief of staff, Denis McDonough, that Mr. Obama called off the attacks on the Syrian regime that he had threatened.
If he had taken that walk with Henry Kissinger or George Shultz, one of those skilled statesmen might have explained to him the consequences of so abject a retreat. But Mr. Obama needs no sage advice, he rules through political handlers.
I know, that doesn't sound at all uplifting. It would have been sufficient and more to my point had I simply noted the title: "When the Obama Magic Died."
Now if we could just Repeal Obamacare & Replace Obama -before he throws Israel to the Iranian wolves- or perhaps find HOPE for CHANGE elsewhere:
Report: Israel and Saudi Arabia
Co-Planning Iran Attack
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