Victor Davis Hanson muses, if only our foreign enemies were Republicans! Hanson cites many examples of how this concept might apply to the intolerant Saudis and their Wahabi madrassas, to the Palestinians, to Assad in Syria, to Morsi in Egypt, to the Libyans who will not turn over to us the killers of our people in Benghazi, to the Greeks, who have "gotten a little soft," to the Islamists in Nigeria who are slaughtering Christians, to his NASA chief to praise Christians for their contributions to civilization, to the Chinese, who have the dirtiest air and water on the planet, to a hostile Vladimer Putin Obama might remind him that he did not build his personal wealth without the help of the state. Maybe he could enlist Michelle to lecture the Europeans, or the IRS to audit Hezbollah? Maybe Obama could scold Erdogan in Turkey for airing Valley of the Wolves, an anti-semetic and anti-American film that has been shown throughout the Middle East.
American politics is historically a rough-and-tumble business, characterized by invective and slurs. What is different with the Obama administration is not that it goes after its critics, but rather that it does so in an extreme fashion that it does not employ for those abroad who oppose the United States at almost every turn. Diplomacy is one thing, but being far harsher with domestic than foreign critics is a peculiarity we have not seen since the Nixon era, when an “enemies list” did not reference Red China or Leonid Brezhnev’s Russia as much as those who worked for the Washington Post.
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