[AmericanInTokyo]

If he is re-elected, even in light of these unspeakable foreign policy missteps if not outright criminal travesties, it will only mean (what I have begun to fear), that Obama now reflects America. And that America reflects Obama. The two will have been made for each other. For pete's sake, look at his approval ratings.

How many entertainment-opiated Americans have even heard of Cairo? Or know to the essence of its core this incredible global significance?

What's it to them if it burns to the ground, Nero Obama presides over this anarchy, and a fundamentalist Sunni super regime rises from the ashes?

There may be no immediate answers to these questions, but as is usually the case the United States, with Obama in the lead, is terribly behind the curve in all of this, due to lack of attention, insularity, and lack of paying savvy, informed attention to intricate matters on far-away shores long before they get out of hand.

[LostInBayport]

I fear you are right. Liberalism has, like a cancer, eaten away at the levels of knowledge and concern in our citizenry. I see it very prevalent in younger people (20s, 30s), who have NO clue about what is going on here much less overseas. I also see it in many older folks who limit themselves to Katie Couric and their local newsrag.

This is how Obama has lasted two years with an absolutely abysmal job performance.