Who will be America's De Gaulle?

"Je vous ai compris," he said.

"I have understood you," and then he left French Algeria in the lurch and got France definitively out of the colonialism business.

We need an American president who will say to the Japanese, the Lithuanians, the Israelis, and the Brits, "I have understood you," and close all our bases, and bring our forces home from, everywhere east of Provincetown and west of Honolulu.

And get America definitively out of the globo-cop business.

Alas, this will not change in my lifetime.

And probably not in yours.