After listening to Ahmadinejad’s U.N. rant and seeing his goons shout at Elie Wiesel, hearing Ortega go on his 50-minute rant, and listening to the antics of the thuggish Chávez and Morales at the Latin American “summit” — and collating all that with Obama’s praise of the “courageous” Saudi royal (replete with bow) and the Turkish government’s demands to derail the new Danish head of NATO (who courageously stood up for free speech) — does anyone really believe that Obama’s glad-handing, push the reset button, “we’re listening now,” “Bush did it,” “I was only (fill in the blank) then” overseas script constitutes morality, wisdom, or the advancement of our national values and interests? Or has the thin ethical veneer almost completely worn away from this narcissistic, Bono-like celebrity tour?
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Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University; the author of The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won; and a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness.
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