LongWire
11-10-2009, 01:30
Something else to skip out on..................
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http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=YTUwN2I3OWQxNTIwZGE0OGZkZTdiYWFkOGIzY2RiODI=
November 06, 2009, 4:00 a.m.
Forgetting the Fall
They tore down the wall; he tears up his invitation.
An NRO Symposium
President Barack Obama has RSVPed “nein” to Chancellor Merkel’s invitation to Germany to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. National Review Online asked a few experts what this snub reveals about our current president.
DINESH D’SOUZA
I’m glad Obama is not going. Of course it’s a stupid move for him politically, but I’m all for stupid moves by this guy. If Obama were wily like Bill Clinton, he would go to the Berlin Wall and make a lot of pompous statements about how “we” won the Cold War. Clinton knew very well that “we” didn’t win the Cold War; Reagan did. The Republicans did.
Reagan had some crucial allies: Margaret Thatcher, Pope John Paul II, Vaclav Havel, Lech Walesa. Gorbachev too played an important role, although it was largely a role that he didn’t intend to play, one that was scripted for him by Reagan. But the West’s victory in the Cold War was not one that would have occurred if the policies of liberal Democrats had been in place. For this reason, the fall of the Berlin Wall is a reminder that liberalism was proven wrong in perhaps the greatest foreign-policy challenge since World War II.
Obama probably thinks he has more important things to do than to go to Berlin. What he doesn’t realize is that his mask is coming off: The serene, above-the-fray Obama of the presidential campaign is now giving way to the partisan ideologue that appears to be the real Obama. If Obama went to Berlin, he would have a chance to put his mask back on. Perhaps it’s best that he stay home.
— Dinesh D’Souza is the author of Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader and, most recently, Life After Death: The Evidence.
FRANK GAFFNEY
Nine words say it all: Undermine our allies. Embolden our enemies. Diminish our country.
That’s the Obama Doctrine in a nutshell, and the slighting of Germany with regard to one of the most symbolic and consequential expressions of the quest for freedom undertaken in the teeth of Soviet oppression does all three.
— Frank J. Gaffney Jr. is president of the Center for Security Policy in Washington.
Full article at the link
http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=YTUwN2I3OWQxNTIwZGE0OGZkZTdiYWFkOGIzY2RiODI=
November 06, 2009, 4:00 a.m.
Forgetting the Fall
They tore down the wall; he tears up his invitation.
An NRO Symposium
President Barack Obama has RSVPed “nein” to Chancellor Merkel’s invitation to Germany to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. National Review Online asked a few experts what this snub reveals about our current president.
DINESH D’SOUZA
I’m glad Obama is not going. Of course it’s a stupid move for him politically, but I’m all for stupid moves by this guy. If Obama were wily like Bill Clinton, he would go to the Berlin Wall and make a lot of pompous statements about how “we” won the Cold War. Clinton knew very well that “we” didn’t win the Cold War; Reagan did. The Republicans did.
Reagan had some crucial allies: Margaret Thatcher, Pope John Paul II, Vaclav Havel, Lech Walesa. Gorbachev too played an important role, although it was largely a role that he didn’t intend to play, one that was scripted for him by Reagan. But the West’s victory in the Cold War was not one that would have occurred if the policies of liberal Democrats had been in place. For this reason, the fall of the Berlin Wall is a reminder that liberalism was proven wrong in perhaps the greatest foreign-policy challenge since World War II.
Obama probably thinks he has more important things to do than to go to Berlin. What he doesn’t realize is that his mask is coming off: The serene, above-the-fray Obama of the presidential campaign is now giving way to the partisan ideologue that appears to be the real Obama. If Obama went to Berlin, he would have a chance to put his mask back on. Perhaps it’s best that he stay home.
— Dinesh D’Souza is the author of Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader and, most recently, Life After Death: The Evidence.
FRANK GAFFNEY
Nine words say it all: Undermine our allies. Embolden our enemies. Diminish our country.
That’s the Obama Doctrine in a nutshell, and the slighting of Germany with regard to one of the most symbolic and consequential expressions of the quest for freedom undertaken in the teeth of Soviet oppression does all three.
— Frank J. Gaffney Jr. is president of the Center for Security Policy in Washington.