Why the pretentious without real wings should not try to fly

Victor Davis Hanson refers to President Obama as our Icarus-in-Chief. Naturally, I went scurrying to Wikipedia where I learned that Icarus was the Greek god who had great ambition but failed when his hubris got the best of him.

He ignored instructions not to fly too close to the sun, and the melting wax caused him to fall into the sea, where he drowned.

Recent events have exposed some fantasies about the EU, China, and the Arab Spring, all of which Hanson analyzes succinctly. His final comment:

The nosedive of the melting Obama will leave the world a more dangerous place, but also serve as another mythological reminder of why the pretentious without real wings should not try to fly.