Wisdom does not come from knowledge.

As 2015 comes to an end we can look forward to the last year of Barack Obama as the President of the US. In November next year the US will elect a new president and on 20 January 2017 we will hopefully see the last of the gasbag. After George Bush, who has been ridiculed as a moron, Obama was thought to be a cerebral president, an alumnus of Harvard Law School, no less, but he leaves the world an infinitely more dangerous place than when he first came to power. Much like Dr Manmohan Singh was built up as a great economist, only to reduce our economy to near bankruptcy in his determination to cling on to his chair, whatever the cost to the nation. Obama probably thinks that he is so smart that the rest of the world should do as they are told. What he has not understood is that the US may be the richest and the strongest nation in the world but it is just another country on Mother Earth. The Climate talks in Paris earlier this month ended with a wishy-washy deal because the US insisted on the same levels of sacrifice from emerging nations. Obama had already signed a deal with China, which allows China to peak its CO2 emission levels by 2030 and the US would try to reduce CO2 below 2005 levels. If numbers one and two are not going to reduce their emissions why would anyone else? Mother Earth has just reminded Obama that she is the boss. Floods are affecting several states and 69 tornadoes have hit the US in December. 49 people have died and damage will be in billions of dollars. There are floods where Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay meet in South America while Storm Frank is causing more misery in Britain which was already inundated from previous rains. The Arctic temperature is going to rise to above freezing when it should be -20 Celsius at this time of the year. Apparently the El Nino is going to be as bad as in 1997-98, which was the worst on record. Having engineered an armed coup in Ukraine against an elected president, Victor Yanukovych, the country is now at the point of anarchy as rivals fight for power while the eastern half of the country gradually breaks away. Strangely, former President of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, a US stooge, is the governor of Odessa. While Iraq was Bush's stupidity, Libya is Obama's. It is astonishing that a 'cerebral' man did not learn from the chaos produced by removing Saddam Hussein. His nuclear deal with Iran is seen as a triumph but what was he hiding? You get a bad smell when you learn that the NSA was spying on Israel's Prime Minister, including on his conversations with members of the US Congress. Having dismissed ISIS as 'JV team' he has started bombing ISIS in Syria which, of course, allowed Al Qaeda to re-establish bases in Afghanistan. He can be proud of his record of killing hundreds of civilians by using drones indiscriminately. Is it better to be a serial killer than a moron? That is surely a cerebral debate.