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Obama and the Malleability of History
In pursuit of noble goals, Obama ignobly twists the truth.
By Victor Davis Hanson
President
Obama has given a number of major speeches touching on world affairs
since he announced his bid for the presidency. All have invoked
historical examples — usually for moral purposes, but often at the
expense of both literal and figurative truth.
THE VICTORY COLUMN SPEECH
1)
Candidate Barack Obama had supposedly made a presumptuous request to
speak at the Berlin Wall and been denied (the Germans might later have
regretted that turndown, since a year later Obama, tit-for-tat,
declined an invitation to speak there on the 20th anniversary of the
wall’s fall), and so he chose the Victory Column as his backdrop
instead.
It was an ironic setting for a historic speech on
global peace, since the monument is formed of gun barrels taken from
conquered enemies, and it commemorates defeats of the Danish,
Austrians, and French — as well as Nazi chest-thumping over the
annexation of Austria. The monument is an icon to aggressive
nationalism, which is why the French wished to destroy it after World
War II.
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