The Collapse of the Liberal World Order

The Collapse of the Liberal World Order | The American Spectator
"Pesident Obama has ended the Iraq War.” 

So says the White House blog, the headline preserved in the amber that is the Internet. 

The date: October 21, 2011 at 2:18 Eastern Daylight Time. 

Along with a video of the president saying this, a statement on the site has been helpfully provided, partially excerpted here:

In 2008, in the height of the presidential campaign, then-Senator Obama made a promise to give our military a new mission: ending the war in Iraq.

As the election unfolded, he reiterated this pledge again and again — but cautioned that we would be “as careful getting out of Iraq as we were careless getting in.”…

Now, that promise will be wholly fulfilled. Today, President Obama announced that the rest of our troops will be home by the holidays.…

But this moment represents more than an accomplishment for the President. It marks a monumental change of focus for our military and a fundamental shift in the way that the our nation will engage in the world….

[As the President announced:] “The United States is moving forward, from a position of strength. The long war in Iraq will come to an end by the end of this year.”

Meanwhile, here at home the New York Post has headlined: 

Squeegee men are back terrorizing NYC streets