Posted on 04/24/2011 4:06:46 PM PDT by Texas Peartree
One of the themes of President Obama's foreign policy, heck the only theme to President Obama's foreign policy, is his extraordinary effort to punish America's friends and support our enemies.
Examples of this moral inversion are many. Let’s put aside the easy examples of Obama’s shabby treatment of the Queen of England and the Prime Minister of Israel (who does he think he is, Lyndon LaRouche?). Obama refused to say supportive words for Iran's democratic protesters who could have possibly overthrown their stolen election in the terror-state of Iran and replaced the government with something, anything more pro-American. Instead our President said nothing while students were arrested, shot in the streets, tortured and raped in secret prisons.
When Egypt's Hosni Mubarak was destabilized, we took the side of the street protesters, even though Mubarak had been a largely pro-West leader in the most important Arab state for the past three decades. Mubarak was no saint, but in the real world you need the support of some authoritarians to stave off the rule of totalitarians. Has the Iranian Revolution taught us nothing?
Likewise, in Honduras, American policy was to support an anti-American puppet of Nicaragua and Venezuela who wished to unconstitutionally stay in power, instead of supporting the pro-American business elite that wanted to stay out of the anti-American Latin American bloc.
Now comes Syria. Syria is run by a minority government led by comical President-for-life Bashir Assad, son of the late Syrian President-for-life Hafez Assad. Syria proliferates weapons to Hamas and Hezbollah against UN resolutions. Syria helps thousands of jihadists to slip into Iraq to destabilize her neighbor and kill American soldiers. Syria facilitated the destruction of the US embassy and Marine base in Beirut in the 1980s. Syria also is the one state that ...
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If we were to update The Manchurian Candidate to The Iranian Candidate, what would the President do? Go after Israel, allow Iran to get nuclear weapons, be silent about oppression in Iran and Syria, encourage the Muslim Brotherhood to take over Egypt, and give free reign to Hamas and Hezbollah.
Ruh roh. Occam’s Razor suggests an answer . . .
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