from Richard Fernandez at PJ Media, The End of the Memory Hole

One of the most puzzling aspects of current events is the contrast between the ever increasing size of government and its paradoxical helplessness. It gets bigger and more impotent at the same time.  Charles Krauthammer has a long list of Obama administration failures.  Never has the White House had such a free hand in foreign affairs.  Yet Krauthammer notes that Russian bombers are now based out of Iran, American troops are  under serious threat of attack from an enemy air force (Syria!) Putin is threatening to annex the Crimea, which Obama promised never to allow and the administration has just admitted paying ransom to one of the chief terror nations on earth.  The more power Obama is given, the less he seems to be able to do with it.

HKO

Power may be the ultimate aphrodisiac, or the ultimate illusion.

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