I wonder what I think about Obama going amongst the heathens to promote the cause of universal suffrage and one worldism? - ah, not a lot. Can't really see the point of it: much like his European tour and the insipid, grandiose speech making that went on there and achieved nothing, the only purpose one can glean for this Muslim fest is to burnish his own image - and I don't even know to whom! - them or himself? Hard to say.
Words have a tactical use - but the actions and consequences of strategy are driven by circumstances, upon which nice speeches have only a tangential effect. Sure, Pericles let loose some fine rhetoric and moved a great people to action, but it was the boldness of his cunning and the coherence of his strategy that mattered most - and still he failed! - jeez - so what's Obama's strategy here? I don't have a fuckin' clue, other than, as I've said, to burnish the myth of himself.
I'll repeat, Obama's attributes work well for the selling of a liberal agenda to a fatuous domestic audience: if he tries to translate those charms and that approach to the international arena, which seems to be the case, I predict that not only will he be frustrated by events and circumstances, he will end master of a world moving in the exact opposite direction of what he's imagining.
Or he'll succeed and I'll look like an idiot - not that anyone will notice.
