Obama's natural habitat is as American as the nearest faculty club; he is a distillation of America's academic mentality; he is as American as the other professor-president, Woodrow Wilson.Faculty are uniformly anti-colonial, albeit more Keynesian than Kenyan. To date, Obama's foreign policy is as unrealistic as Wilson's was...no surprise.
You may also want to see John Podhoretz's reflections on the Will column, published in Commentary.
