Victor Davis Hanson with a typically even-handed description of the ongoing crisis of our "leadership:" the vacuum in the White House. Which vacuum is purely a result of the vacuum of the ideas and ideology of Our President and those who surround him.

Abroad, there is the same commonsense intuition that something about the president's talk does not quite seem right. One or two apologies might convey magnanimity; three or more reveal obsequiousness. Apologizing to a cranky neighbor for mowing on a Sunday morning is wise; apologizing to the entire block for an array of past sins does not just ensure ridicule, but could prove downright dangerous.

This is the least strong of the points Hanson makes, but it was the only one that made me smile. But it was a weak smile. Read the whole thing.