Ajami: Middle East Is Proof of What Moral Indifference Breeds

Fouad Ajami has a must-read opinion piece in the WSJ today that illuminates just how disastros Barack Obama's foreign policy has been. It is a foreign policy born of moral indifference and preening, psuedo-intellectual self-centeredness - in other words, typical squishy liberalism. Throw in a reflexive, unthinking imperative to be the anti-George W. Bush and you have the conditions to let chaos flourish around the world. Lebanon is on the cusp of being taken over lock stock and barrel by some of the most loathesome thugs on the planet. A thieving, brutal dictator is defying his people and the world by holding on in Ivory Coast. North Korea is lobbing bombs into South Korea. KGB-run Russia is reassembling the USSR. I could go on, but suffice it to say "Told ya' so." Two years of looking at Obama and knowing that they have two more years, at least, of running room, the bad guys are running wild. There is hardly a single optimistic development in the cause of human freedom and liberty anywhere to be found in the world, with the possibble exception of Tunisia which had nothing to do with the United States, and could easily fizzle out into another miserable outcome. If history is clear on one thing, it is that when the world's pre-eminent power is an indifferent, morally relativistic obliger, evil has a heyday and suffering ensues. Tragic.