Probably the most puzzling thing that Obama said in the speech, perhaps even the most puzzling thing he has ever said, was “The protesters succeeded in doing in a few years what the terrorists were unable to do in decades.”

In the late 1930′s Adolph Hitler said “Give me 5 years and you will not be able to recognize your cities.” And thanks to the RAF and the USAAF that promise was fulfilled. But the objectives of the Allied effort were very different from what Hitler meant. So would we say that allied airpower achieved what Hitler himself could not? Technically, yes, but it hardly means the same thing.

Equating the objectives of the “Arab Spring” protesters and the Middle Eastern terrorists sounds downright delusional. And if it was not delusional, what does it really mean?