Dennis Boyles from Paris pens a blistering post in NRO today. Quite perceptive for the shame and irresponsibility of America under Obama-direction. Partially quoted below, the full article is worth the read.
A less-than-forceful America has serious implications for Europe. If Obama is willing to throw the Poles to Putin, what does that mean for the rest of Europe? Just the idea of defending themselves is enough to bankrupt most European states. A strong America may have been unpopular. That’s the price a nation pays for its superpower status, and even when the Left was at its most successful in demonizing the U.S., they could never quite diminish the hopeful respect for American ideals that always lurked nearby.
But Obama may have found a way to reinvent America as something in his own image, even if more loathsome: a weak nation shrinking from the responsibilities of strength. A weak America is a prize that Yank-bashers have been dreaming about for 50 years, because that’s an America that, perhaps rightly, will be truly and forever despised.
— Denis Boyles teaches at The Brouzils Seminars in France. His most recent book is Superior, Nebraska.
via The Limits of Reinvention by Denis Boyles on National Review Online.