President Obama in Cairo, Egypt

From Fouad Ajami, Wall Street Journal:

A foreign policy of penance has won America no friends.

‘He talks too much,” a Saudi academic in Jeddah, who had once been smitten with Barack Obama, recently observed to me of America’s 44th president.

From Boston Review:

The age of cyber-warfare has arrived. That, at any rate, is the message we are now hearing from a broad range of journalists, policy analysts, and government officials.

In what is being hailed as a breakthrough in the field of historical record-keeping, the National Archives announced Monday that it would immediately begin outfitting Barack Obama’s chest, limbs, and face with an array of motion capture sensors for use in preserving a 3-D account of his time as president.

“The presidency of Mr.

(01-20) 12:17 PST SAN FRANCISCO – The 44th president of the United States honored our history as he made history today. It was just the right tone for these perilous times.

President Obama reminded America that change – and great challenges – have defined this nation.

Now that the Fix has returned to our undisclosed location on Capitol Hill and our fingers and toes are slowly but surely thawing out, we offer a few of our thoughts about Barack Obama’s first speech to the country as president of the United States.

Have thoughts of your own on the history we all just witnessed?