BRILLIANT – QUOTE OF THE DAY – AT 9:07 A.M. ET:  Victor Davis Hanson has emerged as one of the most important historians in the United States, a welcome breath of fresh air and a relief from the predictable leftist "scholars" who dominate our university and who can find nothing good about the United States.  Hanson examines Barack Obama's pathetic record in foreign policy and notes the president's clear failure to learn the lessons of the past.  From PJ Media: 

Leon Trotsky probably did not quite write the legendary aphorism that “you may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.” But whoever did, you get the point that no nation can always pick and choose when it wishes to be left alone.

Barack Obama, however, never quite realized that truth, and so just declared that “the world is less violent than it has ever been.” He must have meant less violent in the sense that the bad guys are winning and as they do, the violence wanes — sort of like Europe around March 1941, when all was relatively quiet under the new continental Reich.

One of Obama’s talking points in the 2012 campaign included a boast that he had “ended” the war in Iraq by bringing home every U.S. soldier that had been left to ensure the relative quiet and stability after the successful Petraeus surge. In the world of Obama, a war can be declared ended because he said so, given that no Americans were any longer directly involved. (Remind the ghosts of the recently beheaded in now al Qaeda-held Mosul that the war ended there in 2011.)

Iraq is in flames, as is “lead from behind” Libya, as is “red line” Syria, and as are those places where an al Qaeda “on the run” has migrated. Had Obama been commander in chief in 1940, he would have assured us that the wars in Czechoslovakia, Poland, and France were “over” — as they were in a sense for those who lost them, but as they were not for those next in line.

COMMENT:  Read the whole thing.  It's well worth it.  Is Obama intentionally trying to damage the United States?  Or does he honestly believe we're an evil country that must be restrained, and made weaker, to serve humankind?  Honestly, I don't see a third possibility.  Do you readers see one?  I'd love to know.

June 17, 2014