On Tuesday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad did not just reject President Obama’s latest feckless floating nuclear deadline. He spat on it. So ends 2009, the year of “engagement,” of the extended hand, of the gratuitous apology of spinning centrifuges. We lost a year. But it was not just any year. It was a year of spectacularly squandered opportunity
Charles Krauthammer points out Obama distanced himself from this new birth of freedom