In a panel themed around how America has changed since 9/11, Charles Krauthammer said tonight that despite threats multiplying across the Middle East, President Obama “wants to live in a different universe.”
Likening the War on Terror to America’s generations-long Cold War struggle, Krauthammer said on Friday’s Special Report that the fight against communism was not won easily. “We remember the Cold War as this wonderful, great victory; we’re all united.”
“We weren’t,” he continued. ”It lasted almost half a century. We had a victory or two at the beginning, Turkey and Greece in the Truman days, and then it was a terrible slog – Korea, Vietnam with defeats, the Bay of Pigs.”
“Every president said, starting with especially Kennedy in 1961, it is a long twilight struggle,” Krauthammer continued.
In contrast, ”What we are getting here and what we got for the last six years with Obama is a president who said this war is unsustainable, it’s hurting us. It’s changing us in ways it’s got to end. … No surprise the country doesn’t want to continue the struggle.”
Noting that America faces threats not only from “al Qaeda or ISIS and the Sunni radicals,” but also Shiite Iran, Krauthammer said, ”It is organized country with a huge economy with oil and we have now, as of yesterday, made it into a major regional power which will acquire nuclear weapons.”
“This is a long twilight struggle and it looks as if we have leadership that doesn’t want to recognize it, and wants to live in a different universe,” he concluded.