“Obama leaves us with a philosophical question: what will the world look like without any U.S. leadership? Bellum omnium contra omnes? Putin’s new Russian Union? A Chinese Pacific? A Mediterranean of dinghies and rowboats? At what point does the present chaos become apocalyptic? When flights are cancelled to Dubai? When Iranian rockets and terrorists battle Israeli F-16s? When Munich looks like Mogadishu? When Putin takes Tallinn?”

– Victor Davis Hanson