“In his Cairo speech, Obama assured his global audience that they could remake the world, ‘if we have the courage to make a new beginning.’ What he offers, however, is well-worn territory: the dissolute daydream of the utopian. It is a vision of a world that does not require moral courage. It represents, rather, a moral evasion that refuses to face the world as we find it. ‘For it is one thing to see the Land of Peace from a wooded ridge,’ wrote St Augustine, ‘and another to tread the road that leads to it.’’’