Victor Davis Hanson has a interesting take on all the college-related news out there from the Duke case, to loathing Wolfowitz in academia, to self-protection.
I'm afraid he's right on many accounts. A quote I fear is true:
Barrack Obama’s recent speech linking mass murder at Virginia Tech to everything from Darfur to outsourcing and Imus was about as pathetic an exegesis as one could imagine. And his calls to do something in Darfur were surreal, akin to the Democrats’ demands that we “get Osama bin Laden” as if invading or bombing nuclear Islamic Pakistan were a real option.
But we know both would be difficult, and the Democrats’ past record, from October 2002 to the present, would give us the script: vote for invasion, back peddle when things got rough (and they would in the Pakistani borderlands or the killing fields of the Sudan), and then blame others for brain-washing them. Five years from now I could imagine Mr. Obama assuring everyone that he was given faulty information about Darfur and thus, Kerry-like, was for the invasion before he was against it.
Ouch. But we all kinda sorta know it's true.
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"Barrack Obama’s recent speech linking mass murder at Virginia Tech to everything from Darfur to outsourcing and Imus was about as pathetic an exegesis as one could imagine."
Obama's speech was dumb because it tried to view a bunch of complex, disparate events through that single, ill-defined overriding concept: violence.
But the post you cite by Victor Davis Hanson makes the same move, interpreting a variety of events as being rooted in a single, ill-defined cause: leftism.
This is something that fascinates me, how Hanson is able to locate the logical flaw in Obama's thinking while then employing THE SAME FLAW in his own critique. Hmm.
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