Roger Kimball, PJMedia: Cairo Is Burning
"Near the beginning of his first term, Obama, a bit like Cleopatra on her barge of burnished gold, floated into Cairo and told the world that he had come 'to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world; one based upon mutual interest and mutual respect...' Where some of my left-leaning friends see a cool-headed pragmatist..., I see horrifying failure that I have alternately put down to stupefying incompetence, on the one hand, and Alinskyite malevolence, on the other hand." [rdbrewer]