MISSING FROM BERLIN SPEECH

The following is the first paragraph of an excellent column published today in the Boston Globe. A link to the entire piece appears below:

Missing from that Berlin speech
EmailPrintSingle Page Text size – + By Jeff Jacoby
July 27, 2008
BARACK OBAMA had ample reason to recall the Berlin Airlift of 1948 during his dramatic speech in the German capital last week. The airlift was an early and critical success for the West in the Cold War, with clear relevance to our own time, the war in Iraq, and the free world's conflict with radical Islam. But having reached back 60 years to that pivotal hour of American leadership, Obama proceeded to draw from it exactly the wrong lessons.

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/07/27/missing_from_that_berlin_speech/