President Obama’s U.N. address on Wednesday was a “pastiche of his golden oldies,” says George Will, who drolly remarked on the president’s main points.
After “the usual invocation of History, which is a proper noun to progressives,” the president declared, with regard to Russia: “‘While small gains can be won at the barrel of a gun, they will ultimately be turned back if enough voices support the freedom of nations.’ So it’s voices against guns,” observed Will. “I’m betting on the guns, and I bet Putin is, also.”
The president then took a moment, noted Will, to “lecture . . . on the hard work of peace . . . a country that has not known an hour of peace in 66 years” — Israel.
And, by drawing an equivalence between the activities of the Islamic State and the events in Ferguson, Mo., the president could not help but to indulge his “metabolic urge to remind us and the rest of the world something that no one doubts, which is that America has flaws.”
The columnist was, to say the least, unimpressed.
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