George Will: Obama Is Betting on 'Voices' While Putin Is Betting on 'Guns'
George Will: Obama Is Betting on 'Voices' While Putin Is Betting on 'Guns'
On Wednesday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel,
Washington Post columnist George Will criticized President Barack
Obama’s address to the United Nations earlier in the day, questioning
the rhetoric on the grounds of being on the right side of history, the
“voices” of freedom and his tendency to find fault with the United
States in speeches abroad.
“The pastiche of his golden oldies it is in one sense,” Will said.
“First of all, there is the usual progressive invocation of history,
which is a proper noun to progressives and the fact that everyone better
get on board on the right side of history as he knows the right side of
history and history is going to work out, which makes you wonder what
all the urgency is about if history is going to work out the right way
anyway. Then something that I would love to hear how Putin responds to
this: ‘While small gains can be won at the barrel of a gun, it will
ultimately be turned back if enough voices support the freedom of
nations.’ So it's the voices against guns and I’m betting on the guns
and bet Putin is also. Then he lectures the Israelis on their need to
understand the hard work of peace. This is a country that has not an
hour of peace in 66 years. And then he seems to have a metabolic urge to
remind us and the rest of the world something that no one doubts, which
is that America has flaws. He says, ‘Islamic state decapitates
and crucifies and murders husbands and sells their wives, but we have
Ferguson, MO.’”
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