17 March 2012
Real Magic Is Needed
Ironically, the argument in Daniel Heninger’s “The Magician” (WSJ 3/15/12) makes the case for re-election of a failed president, like George W. Bush—i.e. “You spilled the milk, so you clean it up!”
1) With reference to the financial meltdown, the “nothing” in-between before the recent recovery is the steady work of the diligent fixer-upper that Obama has been.
2) It was never America’s job to fix Iraq’s problems; we mistakenly entered the country under false pretenses in the first place, and we are finally leaving it to its own devices.
3) The Taliban is not our enemy in Afghanistan. Yes, it had allowed Al Qaeda to establish a base there, but the U.S. and its allies can prevent that in the future without staying in the country.
4) For the world to help Syrians escape devastation by their oppressive regime, Obama should urge his European allies to take the forceful measures they undertook before in Libya, Bosnia and Kosovo.
5) Iran shows that being on the table doesn’t just mean sitting there for us to take pot shots at it; the table can serve other more cost-effective diplomatic courses of action, too.
6) The North Koreans put themselves in the position where humanitarian aid may have more leverage over their nuclear weapons and ballistic missile program than idle threats of military intervention.
President Obama can indeed perform real magic by solving all these problems without wastefully and hurtfully resorting to warfare.
Ironically, the argument in Daniel Heninger’s “The Magician” (WSJ 3/15/12) makes the case for re-election of a failed president, like George W. Bush—i.e. “You spilled the milk, so you clean it up!”
1) With reference to the financial meltdown, the “nothing” in-between before the recent recovery is the steady work of the diligent fixer-upper that Obama has been.
2) It was never America’s job to fix Iraq’s problems; we mistakenly entered the country under false pretenses in the first place, and we are finally leaving it to its own devices.
3) The Taliban is not our enemy in Afghanistan. Yes, it had allowed Al Qaeda to establish a base there, but the U.S. and its allies can prevent that in the future without staying in the country.
4) For the world to help Syrians escape devastation by their oppressive regime, Obama should urge his European allies to take the forceful measures they undertook before in Libya, Bosnia and Kosovo.
5) Iran shows that being on the table doesn’t just mean sitting there for us to take pot shots at it; the table can serve other more cost-effective diplomatic courses of action, too.
6) The North Koreans put themselves in the position where humanitarian aid may have more leverage over their nuclear weapons and ballistic missile program than idle threats of military intervention.
President Obama can indeed perform real magic by solving all these problems without wastefully and hurtfully resorting to warfare.
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