May
27
Written by:
Dr. Ernie Moore
Thursday, May 27, 2010
National Review Online’s article by Victor Davis Hanson begins with a bold statement and finishes with some interesting questions.
We are going to provide you with both ends, but also add some remarks of our own. For the complete piece, follow the link at the end.
May 26, 2010 4:00 A.M.
Death of the Postmodernist Dream
By Victor Davis Hanson
“As crises mount abroad and voters’ anger grows at home, Obama’s dream of a new world order has died a quiet death.
“In just a few months the brave new dream world as we knew it has died — but with a whimper, not a bang.
“There will be no more lectures on soft power and a Baltic-to-Mediterranean postmodern culture. Suddenly European Union expansion is dead in its tracks. The question of Turkish membership, after a decade-long controversy, has been settled without so much as a demonstration. The Europeans don’t want another Greece in their midst; the Turks don’t want German bankers running their sagging finances. A soaring Euro was supposed to reflect the sobriety of socialism; instead, it hid its profligacy, but only for a while….
[EDM: For decades the ivory tower liberals, of which our President is now commander in chief, have been squirming in their seats, wanting America to be just like the Europeans. Anything they did, had or thought was exactly how it should be, and anything American was shoddy, crass and something for which we should apologize or be ashamed of.
[Now they have their guy in charge, he is midway to turning America on its ear and conforming us to the EU way of doing things.
[But wait! All is not quiet on the European front! The Euro is crashing, the grand giveaway governments are likewise leaning anticipatory of a fall, and there is blood in the streets of Greece, while others like Spain and Italy await their own riots by the free circus crowds angry because the clowns are retreating and rescinding the free lunches.
[Hanson also mentions, almost in passing, that the Turks who once slavered for a nod of admittance to the EU now “don’t want German bankers running their sagging finances.” Having been to Turkey on more than one trip, I have to tell you that it was interesting, but I didn’t see anything I’d like to import to the US as far as means or methodology were concerned. It was a nice place to visit but I wouldn’t want to live like that in the US.]
Hanson continues:
“I do not think the word “reset” will be used much longer to characterize American foreign policy. Reset from what to what? After all, is Iran closer to getting a bomb or further away than it was a year and a half ago? Are terrorists more or less likely to attack and kill inside the United States? Is Syria now a more or a less helpful player in the Middle East? Is Israel safer or less safe, more or less a U.S. ally? Are Putin and Chávez now more helpful players on the world scene, in appreciation of Obama’s olive branches? Does a North Korea or an Iran feel more or less emboldened to run risks in testing the status quo? Is China more or less provocative in the Pacific?”
[EDM” Hanson’s questions are interesting and telling, but there is absolutely no indication that anyone in the White House or at Foggy Bottom (headquarters of the State Department) “gets it.”
[Yes, Rahm will invite Bibi to return to the White House on June 1 – hopefully to more decent treatment by the very President who gifted the Queen of England with an IPod full of his speeches! The invitation doesn’t really mean anything more than that he will likely again try to twist Bibi’s arm so he will surrender more of his nation’s sovereignty to a squalid little corrupt bunch of terrorists in the West Bank.
[The world leadership considers Obama exactly what he presents himself to be – an experimenter who has been inculcated with Black liberation theology – an idea proven horrific in the petri dish of modern Africa’s corruption and tribal genocides; Marxist philosophy – ideas which are already discredited by everyone in the real world; and an arrogant child-man who surrounds himself with sycophants who will not tell him that his new clothes are invisible.
[Hanson’s questions are finally chilling. Can the destruction of the free world’s shining light be slowed by more rational minds, or is the US destined to become little more than a footnote in history?]
http://article.nationalreview.com/434943/death-of-the-postmodernist-dream/victor-davis-hanson