Victor Davis Hanson on Barack Obama
Professor Victor Davis Hanson has a good piece on National Review online about Barack Obama entitled “Let Obama be Obama.”
Here is an excerpt:
He favors re-negotiating NAFTA and threatening to raise some trade barriers, on the premise the United States cannot compete abroad — and that other countries won’t follow suit and retaliate.
His version of the war on terror is largely a story of lost civil liberties and eroding the Constitution, not that we’ve done something right these past six years to prevent another 9/11.
He’s spoken of the surge as a failure — not a success that has stabilized Iraq and paved the way for a downsizing soon of American troops there.
And he believes Iran has grown into a threat not just because of its desire to spread radical Islam, acquire the bomb, destabilize its neighbors, and destroy Israel, but also in large part due either to our presence in Iraq or to our diplomatic failure to talk and engage with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
And here is the money quote:
The irony is that Obama really does offer a change — not just in matters of youth, race, and eloquence, but also in that we have not seen such a leftish philosophy on the national scene in over a generation.
Well put, Professor Hanson.
It’s definitely worth reading the entire article.