Enemies of the West Find a Friend in Obama

Enemies of the West Find a Friend in Obama | National Review Online

At the risk of being melodramatic, it must nonetheless be said: We are in a war for civilization itself, and Barack Obama is not on the right side.

We are in a battle for civilization because the Islamic State, which is darkness and evil personified, hasdeclared war against us — and we in the West and the modernized Orient (Japan, India, Taiwan, and the like) are, despite our flaws, the very repository of civilization. 

They are backwards; we are enlightened. 

They are warped; we are well-intentioned. 

They are inhuman; we are humane. 

They are soul-less; we are desirous, however imperfectly, of a grace beyond our ken.