Thursday, March 18, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Lee Smith: A Middle East Without American Influence? - That's the logical outcome of the Obama administration's current policies. - '...victory does not always go to the smartest—or even to those who have the most airplanes, the most military bases, and the best technology. It goes to those who do not hesitate to impose their wills on the world in order to reshape it to their liking. It goes to the strong horse. Who is the sick horse? From the perspective of our adversaries, that would be us.'
Yes, bingo, precisely so, and a critically diminished American exceptionalism in general, concerning which we've already seen notable signs thereof, commented upon by such as Lech Walesa, certain Czechs, most notably Vaclav Havel, several others of import.