THE ARC OF THE MORAL UNIVERSE IS LONG, BUT IT BENDS TOWARDS ENDLESSLY REPEATING MARXIST CLAPTRAP:

Shot: In historic visit to Hiroshima, Obama calls on the world to morally evolve*.

—The Los Angeles Times, yesterday.

Chaser: Obama’s naive idealism has caused havoc as America makes the same mistakes over and over again.

—Charles Krauthammer, the London Telegraph, yesterday.

* Apart from the naiveté of the notion (a variation on the left’s 150-year old religious belief that man is perfectible), I’m not sure if the world is ready to take advice on its moral evolution from a guy who alternately poses in front of styrofoam Greek columns and  sits down for interviews with women who eat Fruit Loops out of their bathtubs.