The Obama Spell Is Broken -- Faoud Ajami, Wall Street Journal
Unlike this president, John Kennedy was an ironist who never fell for his own mystique.
The curtain has come down on what can best be described as a brief un-American moment in our history. That moment began in the fall of 2008, with the great financial panic, and gave rise to the Barack Obama phenomenon.
The nation's faith in institutions and time-honored ways had cracked. In a little-known senator from Illinois millions of Americans came to see a savior who would deliver the nation out of its troubles. Gone was the empiricism in political life that had marked the American temper in politics. A charismatic leader had risen in a manner akin to the way politics plays out in distressed and Third World societies.
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COMMENTARIES, OPINIONS, AND EDITORIALS
Arms and Taiwan: The US Must Respond to China’s Nuclear North Korea -- Joshua Stanton, The New Ledger
Obama's Dangerous China Game -- Leslie H. Gelb, The Daily Beast
Obama's gutless missile defense policy -- Michael Turner, American Thinker
Al-Qaeda Attempts to Woo Useful Idiots -- Michael J. Totten, Commentary Magazine
Tony Blair's Iraq Statesmanship -- Wall Street Journal editorial
Shock, Awe and Abracadabra -- New York Times editorial
Iran's Bubble Boys -- Geneive Abdo, Foreign Policy
War and Peace in the Levant -- Noah Pollak, Commentary Magazine
Sniping at U.S. Haiti role shows EU Weakness -- Celestine Bohlen, Delaware Online
Chávez Drops the Democracy Mask -- Mary Anastasia O'Grady, Wall Street Journal
The Most Important Story You Didn't See Last Week (and Probably Won't Ever See) -- William Tate, American Thinker
Talking the talk -- Mark Steyn, Washington Times
Economists in Davos Look with Concern to 2010 -- Anne Seith in Davos, Spiegel Online
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