Tens of thousands of Germans cheered at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate last week when Barack Obama appeared at an open-air event sponsored by an association of protestant churches. For a faraway television viewer, this thought came to mind: Could Mr. Obama (or the beatific crowd, or Angela Merkel, his beaming co-star) have read what Joschka Fischer, with remarkable fierceness, said about the failure of the Obama presidency?

Source: Wall Street Journal May 29, 2017 20:26 UTC