Egypt crisis leaves Obama diminished

Rex Murphy:

Singular or great events have been the prism through which some politicians find the measure of themselves.

The dynamic is familiar from history. Great challenges or crises sometimes call out the extrordinary personalities or leaders that alone can deal with such challenges or crises. The time, so to speak, evokes its redeemer. Not invariably. We are not always lucky. Not every crisis finds its manager. But then, lucky we sometimes are: we have but to think of Lincoln and Churchill — two men whose extraordinary abilities and capacity were only to be revealed in their full scope and exercise, stimulated into existence by (in their case) — the near apocalpytic challenges they had to face.

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