"But his finest accomplishment, as Charles Krauthammer brilliantly details here, is to humble America and usher in a new era of American un-exceptionalism and decline. Now that’s something for these people to celebrate!"
"Well, now it’s not like he hasn’t done anything, right? He’s introduced a new era of hostility in U.S.-Israeli relations. He has been rebuffed by all the parties in the region and been forced to retreat on his innovative gambit (i.e., alienating Israel and fanning Palestinian rejectionism over the folly of a freeze on every bubba’s apartment in East Jerusalem.). He concealed a secret Iranian nuclear site and spent a year kowtowing to the Great Leader, helping a brutal regime establish its legitimacy. He backed a raving anti-Semite and lunatic in Honduras, bringing that country to the brink of war. And of course on Afghanistan he’s done what the international community loves most of all — dither."
Read it all here:
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/120711
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