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FrogMarch9/26/2009 8:21:09 am PDT

re: #398 albusteve

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President Obama yesterday did his best impression of a high-school soph omore participating in his first Model UN meeting, retailing pious clichs he learned from his pony-tailed social studies teacher.

Obama’s mistake is in believing “the interests of nations and peoples are shared.” They aren’t. Georgia has an interest in becoming a strong nation capable of defending itself; Russia has an interest in quashing it. China has an interest in dominating all of East Asia; Japan and other neighbors have an interest in containing it.

Iran has an interest in gaining a nuclear weapon; Israel — and the United States — has an interest in stopping it.