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Friday, October 16, 2009

Obama in the Footsteps of George W. Bush

A great editorial from Bernd Debusmann.


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Cross-Posted at RedBlueChristian

2 comments:

pastor mack said...

Not sure what makes this a "great" editorial, but here is a rebuttal, via another editorial:

Re: Obama, Bush, and "the world":

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NzU1ZDg4OGMzOGQ1MjkzZDMyYmRlMGI0YjgyNmU1OWQ=

For all the humility Obama has preached of late, little of this has been seen in his staunchest supporters. With cries of "Yes we can!" chanted in a (not-so) quasi-religious fervor, those who questioned Obama's qualifications for the job or his subsequent performance have been labeled as extremists with no hesitation at all. Humility, indeed.

Allan R. Bevere said...

Pastor Mack:

Thanks for the link.

To my mind what makes this a great editorial is the down-to-earth insistance that humility and diplomacy are not sufficient in fixing all our geo-political problems, as the left naively believes.

I am not suggesting that humility and diplomacy are not important or necessary and that we should go back to GWB's cowboy big stick diplomacy, but this shallow notion that all we have to do is make nice and include everybody and we will get results is simply to ignore the realities before us.