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" Often, it&amp;#039;s a close call whether more of the president&amp;#039;s critics want to gay-bait him or simply call him uppity. (Maureen Dowd, of course, often manages to execute this double and sticks the landing.) Charles Krauthammer of The Washington Post, onetime front man for U.S.-sponsored terrorism in Central America, decides to go for the former, casting the president in a charming blue pinafore and some darling ruby slippers. Obama says enough is enough. He doesn&amp;#039;t want us on &amp;quot;a perpetual wartime footing.&amp;quot; Well, the Cold War lasted 45 years. The war on terror, 12 so far. By Obama&amp;#039;s calculus, we should have declared the Cold War over in 1958 and left Western Europe, our Pacific allies, the entire free world to fend for itself - and consigned Eastern Europe to endless darkness.  In the Museum Of Bad Historical Analogies, I think we have a new exhibit for the main lobby. Did we send 100,000 troops into Hungary in 1956? Into Czechoslovakia in 1968? We sent troops into Vietnam, and into Cuba, and into Korea, and those are three of very few countries where Communists are still running things. We sent troops into Iraq and Afghanistan and the world is less stable that it was before we did it. Did the president offer to disband the intelligence community? Was I getting a beer during that part of the speech? This is John Lennon, bumper-sticker foreign policy - Imagine World Peace. Obama pretends that the tide of war is receding. But it&amp;#039;s demonstrably not. It&amp;#039;s metastasizing to Mali, to the Algerian desert, to the North African states falling under the Muslim Brotherhood, to Yemen, to the savage civil war in Syria, now spilling over into Lebanon and destabilizing Jordan.Even Sinai, tranquil for 35 years, is descending into chaos.  Uh-oh, the Pop Culture Reference Containment Grid seems to have failed. Run for your lives. Yes, all of these things are happening, and they are happening after a decade of United States military meddling in, among other places, Iraq. (Which is not mentioned here, but where things are not going well at all.) All of these things are...one war? Are we moving back in the direction of al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein again. It&amp;#039;s not war that&amp;#039;s receding. It&amp;#039;s America. Under Obama. And it is precisely in the power vacuum left behind that war is rising.Obama declares Assad must go. The same wish-as-policy fecklessness from our bystander president. Two years - and 70,000 dead - later, Obama keeps repeating the wish even as the tide of battle is altered by the new arbiters of Syria&amp;#039;s future - Iran, Hezbollah and Russia. Where does every party to the Syrian conflict go on bended knee? To Moscow, as Washington recedes into irrelevance.  Oh, dear, somebody&amp;#039;s feeling under-imperial again. What, precisely, should the president do here to be, well, feck-full? Lots of airstrikes? Sell advanced weaponry to everybody who can pick John McCain out of a photo array? Should we be bidding against Vladimir Putin in the amoral realpolitik sweepstakes? Anyway, we&amp;#039;re going to move on to Gitmo now anyway.  Because there is none. Hence the need for Gitmo. Other wars end, at which point prisoners are repatriated. But in this war, the other side has no intention of surrender or armistice. They will fight until the caliphate is established or until jihadism is as utterly defeated as fascism and communism. That&amp;#039;s the reason - the only reason - for the detention conundrum. There is no solution to indefinite detention when the detainees are committed to indefinite war.  The caliphate is established?   And this guy calls the president&amp;#039;s view of the world a fantasy. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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