DAVID BROOKS ON OBAMA, COMPASSION, AND THE REFUGEE CRISIS:

For Democrats, I think there’s a sense of responsibility here. You know, President Obama waxed self-righteous about the Republican bill and the Republican behavior, but he’s made a series of cold and, to me, amoral decisions over the past five years to allow this genocide. And maybe they were the right decisions, but they were not moral decisions. They were Machiavelli and Realpolitik decisions not to get involved.

That’s why he’s trying so hard to paint the Republicans as meanies.