Richard Spencer

June 25, 2008

While you’re at NRO reading about Rich Lowry’s dismay over Bush’s low approval rating, be sure to check out William Bennet’s latest anti-Obama piece, in which it is argued, “Barack Obama?s foreign policy is dangerous, na?ve, and betrays a profound misreading of history.” Ah yes, meeting with an adversarial head of state is much, much crazier than attempting to turn Mesopotamia into Switzerland. I’m so glad there are still some clear-eyed realists like Bennett around Washington. Bennett makes a lot of the fact that Reagan never met with a Soviet premier during his first term. But as the Gipper would remark later, “The only reason I’d never met with any of Secretary General Gorbachev’s predecessors was because they kept dying on me.” Bennett goes on to wring his hands over the possibility that Obama might “potentially rupture U.S. relations with key European allies.” Goodness, we wouldn’t want to undo all that good feeling Bush generated during his term. Read on it gets better.