What can one really say about this? It distills, in the form of tragedy, the moral obtuseness, pettiness, and small-mindedness of the Obama administration—couched as it almost always was in moral superiority and arc-of-justice-bends grand narratives
I used to think that having smart, "good" people was enough—or at least better. But to be brilliant and to believe you are right, and to believe that history moves with you, can be rather dangerous, perhaps even more dangerous than the alternatives
The moral superiority and arc-of-justice-ness was employed, to rather unfortunate effect, in Syria, which Obama famously called "someone else's civil war"
I laid out the case here in @TheAtlantic. In short, they believed they were right: theatlantic.com/international/…
I laid out the case here in @TheAtlantic. In short, they believed they were right: theatlantic.com/international/…
