DEROUSING?:

The Opposite of Rousing: The goals were narrow, and delivered without regard to America’s moral obligation to Afghanistan. Peter Beinart on Obama’s missed opportunity. (Peter Beinart, 12/02/09, Daily Beast)

[I]t left me cold. Militarily, we are plunging deeper into Afghanistan, but emotionally, we are getting out. There was virtually nothing in the speech about our moral obligation to the Afghan people, a people to whom America promised much and has delivered scandalously little.

One gets the sense that the final scales fell from a few eyes last night and folks were upset to finally see the real Barack Obama. But the Left long ago -- at least in Vietnam, if not when they let the USSR stand after WWII -- rejected any moral duty to others. Why would the UR be any different? Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush were the leaders who placed morality at the center of our foreign policy and these guys hated both of them.

Posted by Orrin Judd at December 2, 2009 7:30 AM