WASHINGTON — The
question of whether Barack Obama’s second term will be a failure was answered
in the affirmative before his Berlin debacle, which has recast the question,
which now is: Will this term be silly, even scary in its detachment from
reality?...... he vowed energetic measures against global warming (“the global
threat of our time”). The 16-year pause of this warming was not predicted by,
and is not explained by, the climate models for which, in his strange understanding
of respect for science, he has forsworn skepticism.
Regarding another
threat, he spoke an almost meaningless sentence that is an exquisite example of
why his rhetoric cannot withstand close reading: “We may strike blows against
terrorist networks, but if we ignore the instability and intolerance that fuels
extremism, our own freedom will eventually be endangered.” So, “instability and
intolerance” are to blame for terrorism? Instability where? Intolerance of what
by whom “fuels” terrorists? Terrorism is a tactic of destabilization.
Intolerance is, for terrorists, a virtue...... Obama’s vanity is a wonder of
the world that never loses its power to astonish, but really: Is everyone
in his orbit too lost in raptures of admiration to warn him against delivering
a speech soggy with banalities and bromides in a city that remembers John
Kennedy’s “Ich bin ein Berliner” and Ronald Reagan’s “Tear down this
wall”?....To Read More.....
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