The last thing the world wants

One wonders how long it will take before Bono and other Europeans, Leftists, Hollywood types, and other such individuals will realize how yesterday talk about the world "wanting to believe in America again" really is.

Barack Obama has been president for nearly a year, and has wimped out over and over again all over the globe. He has yielded, and conciliated, and generally played the patsy at nearly every opportunity. Other than getting him the Nobel Prize, it hasn't really accomplished much. The world may love him, but it respects the country he supposedly leads the less for his alleged leadership.

The world still hates us- and precisely because it wants to. We are a convenient scapegoat. Too much satisfaction is there to be derived from the tough times America is facing economically for the jealousy of decades to simply be forgotten. There is too much reveling to be done in the perceived decline of American power in the world.

No, Bono. The world doesn't want to believe in America again. That's the last thing it wants. Hating America is just too satisfying. And now that the second Jimmy Carter is in the White House, if the world really wanted to love us, it would.

It doesn't- though it does love Barack Obama. In George Will's telling phrase, it "adores him- and ignores him."

HT: Real Clear Politics