Nile Gardiner calls it correctly as, “shameful when the US president can’t even be bothered to show up at a ceremony marking one of the most momentous events of modern times.” He attributes it to: 1. Obama’s discomfort with American greatness, 2. His attachment of little importance to the advancement of human rights on the world stage, 3. His disregard of the transatlantic alliance, and 4. His desire to appease Russia. See Daily Telegraph post here.
I as well as others have previously treated Obama’s apologies for American greatness, his embrace of dictators, his gravitation to statism, and his penchant to curry favor with the old Soviet economic model. Obama is indeed the antithesis of American greatness, in fact the anthesis of America. He wants to remake it as a socialist welfare state. He wants it to be totalitarian with him in control. Thus understood, his domestic and foreign policies are logical. Thus understood, his absence from what should have been an American “victory lap” in Berlin should indeed have been expected!
Tom Motherway