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Barack Obama should stop apologising for America: It is time for President Obama to recognise that his strategy is weakening his country and making the United States more vulnerable to attack (Nile Gardiner, 02 Jun 2009, Daily Telegraph)

No leader in American history has gone to greater lengths than Barack Obama to make amends for his own country. From condemnation of American “arrogance” in a speech in Strasbourg to acknowledging U.S. “mistakes” before millions of Muslims on Arab television, Obama has rarely missed an opportunity to apologise for the actions of the American people.

President Obama has elevated the art of national self-loathing to new heights, and seems to delight in prostrating the most powerful nation on the face of the earth before its critics and rivals, especially on foreign soil. The Obama worldview revolves around the central premise that the United States must be humble and “engage” and work with its enemies through the application of “smart power”.

...that, for the UR, smart power means pretending one thing and then acting just like W. If folks buy the atmospherics enough to miss the the unchanged substance then his reverse Al-Taqiyya is working.

Posted by Orrin Judd at June 2, 2009 8:36 AM