A lot of other people were fooled: Obama was so smart, so sophisticated, so cool, so moderate, so post-partisan. Others continue to be astonished because they have assumptions of how the president of the United States is supposed to conduct policy, and they can't believe that a man can occupy that position and not conform to the accepted status quo, namely that the US has certain foreign policy and national security interests and will adopt policies to defend those interests.
And to be fair, the author of this article, David Goldman, was one of the few columnists who warned America what sort of man they were electing.
I have always admired Spengler, but there have been times his statements about Islam have made me wonder if he hadn't gone native.
I am baffled why he would be baffled, given his first hand experience in the islamic world. Makes me wonder if he got so close to Islamic world that he lost sight of the forest.