Rich — I agree. What strikes me about that line is how thoroughly Wilsonian it is. Wilson’s love for and promotion of democracy has always been exaggerated. His view was far more Hegelian. He believed that every people should have a State that authentically represented the Nation (a point made by Qadaffi yesterday!). Democracy was one means of achieving this. But self-determination wasn’t necessarily about democracy. It was about legitimacy and great Leaders. Anyway, it didn’t seem to occur to Obama that the character and cause of the nation are not synonymous with the actions of his administration.