Very Familiar Territory

Commentators have long remarked the similarity between the failed Presidency of Jimmy Carter and the failing Presidency of Barack Hussein Obama. There are of course some major differences between the zeitgeist of 1980 and that of 2012 (i.e. no Soviet Union, no twenty percent interest rates- thank God on both counts), but a decrepit economy under each mis-leader and now the remarkable similarity between the fall of the US Tehran embassy and the tragedy of the slaughter of four US government personnel, including of course, of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens (incidentally, the first American Ambassador to be murdered since Adolph Dubs was killed during the Carter administration in 1979 in Afghanistan). Weakness in the US Presidency invites attack and unfortunately Carter and Obama manifest a lack of strength to those who would hurt Americans at home and abroad.