A Voice in the Wilderness In Defense of "Mere Conservatism"

Jonah Goldberg calls President Obama out

The speech Barack Obama gave this week to the United Nations was, in the opinion of conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg, bad.

"The time," Obama assured us again, "has come for those walls to come down."

Walls often exist for a good reason. They mark clear lines between peoples and nations. The Berlin Wall was not built by us, but by those who could not tolerate liberty. It is good that it came down with our victory in the Cold War. But it would have been better to keep it up than lose that struggle.

Of course, Obama's objection isn't to physical walls but figurative ones. His real point is that the cult of unity that marked the worst excesses of his presidential campaign should go global. "Old arguments are irrelevant to the challenges faced by our people," he says. Rather, "the interests of nations and peoples are shared."

The problem with this notion of shared interests is not that it's untrue, but that it's a half-truth. Some interests are shared, others not. It was in Poland's interest for us to honor our commitment on missile defense. Obama concluded that it was better for us to appease Russia's interests.

I couldn't have said it better myself.  Read the rest of his biting analysis here.

Jonah is also the author of the second best book in the last 10 years (the first being America Alone by Mark Steyn): Liberal Fascism.  Here's a clip of the author himself discussing his best-selling book...

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