Our latest guest is Ambassador Charles Hill, former advisor to Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and George Schultz. Mr. Hill claims that US Presidents over the past two decades have been completely inept in foreign policy. Bush 41 and Clinton tried to get international issues off their back in order to regain control of the news cycle and stake their claim as domestic policy presidents. As a result, we lost our focus and understanding of our position in the world, completely missing the rise of Islam and now, failing to strategically face it.
Islamists are just like Communists, Hill argues, hoping to spread their way of thinking to the world, overtake the present world order, and set in place their values and structures.
Many will agree with Hill’s accusation that President Obama has no appreciation for American exceptionalism, meaning Mr. Obama must not actually understand America. Everything about the history of the United States, its promotion of individual freedoms and democracy, is exceptional.
Hence Hill suggests a reading list for the President. He insists the President read Virgil’s Aeneid, saying “Obama is like Aeneas – things happen to him, he doesn’t make things happen.”
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