. >> i is, go back to the campaign and lok -- barac obama said he would do in the war on trror, was he promised th he would be justas tough ortougher than eorge w. bush he wouldattack tarets in pakistan. atatement toprove he cou be a ha that got him in hot ater during theampaign from hillary and others. he also said that h would close guantanamo bay and bringthe judial parts of this war back under the cstitution. no more secret prisons no more extr legal suff. what happened? on the foreign pasht, he war, he didasically what he sa h would do. he staed to draw down the war in iraand shift resources to afghanian. in fact he didet touger or thebushies would say notreally tougher, but the pretore trikes in afghnistanand iraq picked up. he went on charm offesive to set reltions wth the muslm worl thatill take a lon run. and on the legl side, i is a fferent picture. he announced tha guantanamo b would closed in a year, but it sn't happened yet ad nobody in the administratn can prome that it will hapen o -- on target. he uspended the military tribuns, they're back operatg again. there wasn't a

idea that david brooks advanced in which they briefly refers to in his book which is that behold, barac obama has some affinity for burke. or so david brooks rorted. it easy to accuse hegel andfound berg, i'm loong for to a future memoir from obama what he gives a burkean to tunes and union views. well, the sort of stiff foremothers of history of progress have receded into literally anymore what was thought of 100 years ago but the sentimental ridue i argue lingers on. and the underlying attitude of history as an intelligible process has become so embedded in the furnishing of the liberal mind that its pedigree is no longer be called. it explains why liberalism presumes the illegitimacy of conservative orthodoxy without having to argue the matter. the ideological terms if you reallyee this among the so-cled progressive community is called a soap winners are calling us of a movement in there and constrained vision of perfect justice requiring ever more ambitious political interventions in society and in insatiable drive for imperfect perfect calibration of egalitarianism. i think it is this bl