Matthew Continetti writes at the Washington Free Beacon on what President Obama’s final address to the United Nations General Assembly tells us about the failure of Obama’s worldview:
For a stress-induced headache you take an aspirin. What’s happening in the world today requires something much stronger. A farcical ceasefire in Syria has Americans blowing up Assad loyalists and Russians blowing up aid convoys. North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs horrify. China is more assertive by the day. Iranian terrorist, cyber, missile, and maritime threats are unimpeded. “Obama will leave behind the right ideas for restoration of an American-led order,” writes Ignatius, “but sadly, also, the inescapable fact of its decline during his presidency.” I have read this sentence many times in amazement. Ignatius notes the decline of the “American-led order” over the last eight years while absolving the commander in chief of any responsibility. I didn’t listen to Obama’s speech in sadness. I listened in dismay. Dismay at the blithe and aloof manner in which the president described the current moment he helped create, disgust at the sanctimony and elitism of a globalization “course correction” that is really just a doubling down on current policy.
Read the whole thing here.
