“All his fault!”

We’re already seeing the wages of November 6.

Has Hamas been emboldened by the successes of their sponsors and sympathizers in the Arab Spring?

Of course.

Obama’s fault?

Oh, my.

True enough, the regimes of the dictators were better for Israel, as was the Turkey that still prided itself on the legacy of Ataturk and, for that matter, the Iran of the anti-Islamist Shah.

Indeed, in many ways they were better for the peoples of Egypt, Turkey, and Iran – but leave that aside.

All the same, the neocons who justified the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq as efforts to take down dictatorships in favor of democracy are not in a wonderful position to complain of the nasty effects of democracy not only there but everywhere else in the region where it has at last emerged triumphant.

Much less to pretend there was anything much the American president, or even NATO, could have done to either prevent it or somehow ensure that democracy did not bring about the strengthening of Israel’s, and our, enemies.

Nor, given the costs and futility of their invasions and wars all over the Middle East should they really be in a great position to urge, even tacitly, more of the same.

McCarthy, by the way, comes as close as anyone to fully bridging the gap between the neocons and the Islamophobes.

And he has had a comfortable home at the National Review for quite a while, now.

Where he often comes as close as this, as close as anyone, to calling Obama an outright traitor.