Tear down this wall!

Reagan's magnificent speech in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, 1987.

Why won't Obama go to Berlin to celebrate with other Western leaders the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall?

Ed Morrissey suggests Obama won't go because it's not about him. "I think the answer is simpler: Berlin won’t be about Obama. It will honor previous generations of stalwarts against an evil empire that Academia defended for decades..... It’s not that Obama doesn’t think that the fall of the wall is a good thing, but that it has nothing to do with him, and is therefore irrelevant."

Rich Lowry describes Obama's failure to attend the ceremony as the most telling nonevent of his presidency.