Saturday, March 26, 2011  Eisenhower, Obama, and the United
Nations: Faith or Fear?  OK. It's time to fess-up. I changed my
profile to reflect that I have a degree in International
Relations from that bastion of liberalism, Brigham Young
University. And I'm only being a little facetious because my
liberal arts education and my significant but modest political
shift from moderate Republican to moderate Democrat did occur
there. (Which, of course, makes me a flaming liberal if not an
outright communist to many people here in Utah). But, education
happens.  This recent Libyan conflict really has my hope soaring
along with the recognition, but not fear, of great risk. As I
noted before, this could be the first time the United
Nations has actually worked as intended. I'll get back to that
later.  First, I want to promote a little more the idea that we
have a good President who is operating in the style if not all
the politics of another good President, Dwight D.
Eisenhower. Admittedly, that sounds a little weird,