a continent sandwiched between North Africa, the Middle East, and Russia, with millions of unassimilated Muslim immigrants at home.

In matters of foreign policy, Obama likewise has outflanked the Europeans. His calls for talks without restriction with the Iranians; his offer to pour hundreds of millions into Gaza; his outreach to the Syrians; and his popular resonance in South America, the Middle East, and Africa suggest that a leftist America now has more in common with some of these former European colonies than do the centrist Europeans.

It was once easy to slur Bush’s War on Terror as typical American overkill. But now Europeans had better worry that someone in the Obama administration will notice that the renditions, preventative detentions, wiretapping, and summary deportations practiced in parts of Europe were often as authoritarian as anything Bush embraced.

On a number of other issues — expensive legislation to combat global warming, multilateral foreign policy, massive government borrowing, relations with unsavory foreign dictators — Obama is moving to the left of Europe.

The transatlantic alliance we’ve taken for granted for so many years, of course, won’t come to an end overnight. But how ironic will it be if its eventual downfall is someday traced not to a loud George Bush bang, but to a Barack Obama whimper.


— Victor Davis Hanson is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a recipient of the 2007 National Humanities Medal. © 2009 Tribune Media Services, Inc.

You must be enduring terrible suffering to live with such constant fear. Wishing you some peace.

Thanks for all your hard work Merrie.....and I must also compliment you on your saintly level of tolerance for slobbering condescension as evidenced by the 'gem' above still standing, lol

.....and I must also compliment you on your saintly level of tolerance
My take on that disingenuous remark is that, I must have gotten under their skin, which is their problem, not mine.

My clips are really for my own enjoyment and sharing them with others who might possibly find them informative is my reward.

Of course these people who are so happy with The Messiah will be calling for heads when he inevitably trips over his teleprompter and into some new disaster.

when he inevitably trips over his teleprompter and into some new disaster
People will swallow all that blah,blah,blah for only so long
The so-called stimulus won't kick in until 2010 and beyond, meanwhile people are anxiously awaiting Manna from Heaven NOW. The only thing that's "shovel
ready" is all the BS coming out of those clowns in Washington.