The ideas behind Obama’s new world order
The wall belongs to history,” President Barack Obama said,near the end of his speech in Berlin Wednesday. The Berlin Wall, which fell in November 1989, was not the only one he had in mind. Wherever liberal opinion perceives a barrier, physical or spiritual, to human equality, Obama argued, we must take out our chisels and pickaxes. “As long as walls exist in our hearts to separate us from those who don’t look like us, or think like us, or worship as we do,” he said, “then we’re going to have to work harder, together, to bring those walls of division down.” Or as his wife might say: Let’s move.
