In dealing with foreign dictators gassing their people as they did in Syria, threatening to “wipe Israel off the map” with a nuclear attack as Iran repeatedly has done, invading sovereign nations as Russia has now done - or threatening to reduce America to “radioactive dust” as one of Putin’s apparatchiks recently did, - Obama promises “resets” and “flexibility.”
On those promises, by golly, he’s delivered. He boasts that his strategy constitutes “leading from behind.” (I wonder if he imagines that Putin is “following from the front.”)
In dealing with Americans, on the other hand, he shows less flexibility, gives few “resets” and most decidedly leads from the front.
The White House uses the National Security Agency to spy on Americans,
uses the IRS to target Americans with whom it disagrees politically,
refuses to rescue American diplomats begging for help as they’re slaughtered in Benghazi,
calls the American political party that freed the slaves “hostage takers”
and, most recently, uses the CIA to conduct surveillance on American senators
(according to the longtime Democratic senator who heads the Senate Foreign Relations Committee).
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