One world? Obama's on a different planet - Los Angeles Times

"Perhaps Obama needs a remedial course in Cold War history, but the Berlin Wall most certainly did not come down because 'the world stood as one.' The wall fell because of a decades-long, existential struggle against one of the greatest totalitarian ideologies mankind has ever faced. It was a struggle in which strong and determined U.S. leadership was constantly questioned, both in Europe and by substantial segments of the senator's own Democratic Party."