http://blog.oup.com/2009/04/obama_bush/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:48:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://blog.oup.com/2009/04/obama_bush/comment-page-1/#comment-150064 R. Smith Thu, 09 Apr 2009 01:05:37 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=3961#comment-150064 Perhaps, in relation to the issue of U.S. support for the State of Israel, the exchange of Churchill's bust for Lincoln's symbolizes instead President Obama's recognition that this struggle is not so much against an external enemy but between competing forces inside the West itself. As Roger Cohen wrote in the same day's New York Times, "Israeli hegemony is proving a kind of slavery." Perhaps this symbolic exchange will prove that President Obama possesses the wisdom to avert, or to win, another Civil War. Perhaps, in relation to the issue of U.S. support for the State of Israel, the exchange of Churchill’s bust for Lincoln’s symbolizes instead President Obama’s recognition that this struggle is not so much against an external enemy but between competing forces inside the West itself. As Roger Cohen wrote in the same day’s New York Times, “Israeli hegemony is proving a kind of slavery.” Perhaps this symbolic exchange will prove that President Obama possesses the wisdom to avert, or to win, another Civil War.

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