"Bush Was Not the Problem"

This is going to make our liberals scream:

Well, here we go. Remember the number of articles bemoaning the fact that Europeans are stupefied by Bush’s arrogance, or whatever (or words to that effect)? Well, now we get a huge front-page headline in Le Monde saying Europeans Shattered by Obama’s Indifference (Les Européens ébranlés par l’indifférence d’Obama)…

…an editorial in Le Monde bemoans the fact that Europe has been snubbed — again (this time, it is Barack Obama’s refusal to participate in José Luis Zapatero’s USA-Europe summit). As for Arnaud Leparmentier and Corine Lesnes’ article, it starts with these words:

Bush n’était pas le problème. Obama n’est pas la solution

If any of you liberals out there don’t understand French, I’ll venture to translate that, if asked.

Anyways, we’re always happy to say, “we told you so”. Obama never should have been nominated, let alone elected. He’s completely out of his depth. Compounding the problem is that the whole Obama Administration – and the whole American left – doesn’t understand the complexities of global politics. I know you on the left think you do, but you really don’t – it takes hard nosed, American realists to see what you blinded yourselves to.

It isn’t about Bush being a “cowboy”. It isn’t about “unilateralism” (an absurd claim given that we never did anything without partners). It isn’t about US support for Israel. Its not about any of your liberal talking points – its all about power: who has it, who wants and and what is to be done with it. President Bush understood this, Obama doesn’t and thus Obama can’t even keep European leftists happy with US policy.

The Europeans are waking up – wonder when our own liberals will?