A nation is an extended family. While families fight and quarrel, oftenbitterly, you do not take the family quarrel outside the family.
by Pat Buchanan
Despite his boldness, Barack Obama seems as fated to fail as wereWoodrow Wilson and Jimmy Carter. And for the same reason: a belief inhis own righteousness and moral superiority, and a belief that hisideals and his persona count mightily in the modern world.
Wilsondeclaimed about America’s fight to “make the world safe for democracy”when in harness with the British, French, Russian, Japanese and Italianempires, all slavering to feast on the carcasses of the Hohenzollern,Habsburg and Ottoman empires.
By 1920, Wilson was a tragicfailure, mocked by ex-allies and reviled by former enemies for havingdishonored his own 14 Points.
Jimmy Carter declared in 1977that “we have gotten over our inordinate fear of communism that causedus to embrace any dictator who shared in that fear.” So, we underminedNicaragua’s Anastasio Somoza and the Shah, and got the Sandinistas andthe Ayatollah Khomeini.
As for Barack, he behaves on the world stage like some Ivy League kidashamed of the people he came from, letting one and all on campus knowthat he is nothing like his benighted family with its sordid history.