He wouldn’t go to the Berlin Wall, but he’ll take time out while the U.S. is in a war for a Blame America tour? He doesn’t hesitate for an opportunity for shaming, scolding, lecturing, and sermonizing if he can say something bad about the U.S. and go off on a guilt trip.
If I thought that Obama could go without playing the blame game, as he has on every other foreign trip, it might be OK. I could easily imagine George Bush going and genuinely showing his sympathy for those who died there, without apologizing for what was necessary at the time to avoid even greater loss of life—Japanese as well as Amerian.
But Obama is incapable of empathizing with anyone else. It’s all about how much he loves himself and how much he blames America. He couldn’t care less about the Japanese who died there, any more than he cared about the dead at Arlington Cemetery.