What Barack Obama didn’t say
Missing from President Barack Obama’s remarks on the anniversary of the Battle of Normandy, were his usual apologies for America.
Missing were his usual mentions of U.S. transgressions, of our arrogance, of our lecturing, of our selfishness.
In the cemetery overlooking Omaha beach, as Obama stood in the shadow of the memory of the 9,387 U.S. soldiers killed in that battle, there was not a word about our belligerence, about our entry into unnecessary wars.
Perhaps his usual disparagements could not be heard above the echoes of the bullets and screams of war on that beach 65 years ago.
Maybe the American sacrifices on that sand, finally told Barack Obama the truth about America.