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Victor Davis Hanson: At Least We're Liked NowWhen Obama said he would restore our image in the world, few were mature enough to realize that there were already sympathetic governments in Europe, India's billion people liked us, and all of Africa was appreciative of what Bush had done. Fewer still accepted the fact that, given the sorry state of the world, the United States faces a awkward choice: It can either be largely disliked for taking a principled stance in support of constitutional government and open markets, or it can be liked for being unprincipled.
We seem to have forgotten that those who most hated the Bush-Cheney administration were Putin, Chávez, Assad, the Castro brothers, Kim Jong Il, Ahmadinejad, Hamas — and European intellectuals. So, yes, we can be liked in the age of Obama, and the way to do it is to give up Eastern Europe to Russian concerns, be praised by Chávez for our newfound socialism, drop sanctions against Cuba, talk to Iran and Syria without preconditions, ignore Korean missiles, rebuild Gaza (though I hope that does not include restoring the depleted rocket inventory), tack hard to the left of the salons and coffee houses of the EU, and drop all that bothersome talk about democracy and constitutional government.
In other words, the way to be liked is to become like those who don't like us. Who knows — maybe the U.S. will now be asked to chair the U.N. Human Rights Council?
Is anyone on the the left responding to VDH? In piece after piece, he makes point after point that you’d think someone on the left would feel compelled to answer. But instead it seems like I just hear crickets. I guess it’s easier just to ignore him.
Jonah Goldberg’s book Liberal Fascism is another one they prefer to ignore. The book is devastating to the image that liberals hold of themselves yet none has put forward a serious rebuttal as far as I know.
Hanson delivers one gut punch after another. He’s awesome.
