Chaos theory -- and practice: Presidential leadership needed to advance freedom's cause

The Washington Times ^ | July 8, 2009 | Monica Crowley

[Scanian]

It must be comfortable over there on the wrong side of history, because President Obama seems to have settled in quite easily.

Whenever he must decide between democratic forces and those of dictatorship, he invariably sides with the world's collection of "supreme leaders," whose iron-fisted, brutally oppressive, leadership-for-life approach an American president should find uncool. But Mr. Obama doesn't just find it cool. He finds it worth affirming.

From 2002 to the end of his presidency, George W. Bush routinely was accused by the left of "creating chaos": chaos in Iraq, chaos in Afghanistan, chaos in the Muslim world, chaos among our allies.

It was a grossly unfair charge because Mr. Bush applied American strength to removing or neutralizing some of the world's worst tyrannies in order to encourage greater freedom, justice and stability. It's also an ironic charge, given that increasing chaos has been unleashed because of perceived American weakness since Mr. Obama took office.

When he's not overtly apologizing for the United States for past injustices, mistakes or evils, he's busy finding a new dictatorial maniac he can embrace in symbolic "America needs to be humbled" fraternity.

This week, Mr. Obama is in Moscow agreeing to unverifiable reductions in our nuclear arsenal. Russia's supreme leader, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, took time out of his busy schedule of conducting ominous war games in the Caucasus to wind up his toy president, Dmitry Medvedev, to meet with Mr. Obama.

[Steely Tom]

Those who work to increase the entropy of a system have the wind at their backs, unlike those who work to decrease it.

Of course, civilization has evolved many institutions that act, collectively, to thwart the aims of the entropy increasors. His job as Chief Executive puts Mr. Obama at the helm of a good number of these institutions, but not all.

[Piranha]

What a great lead sentence! I’ve made it my tagline.

[Scanian]

The trouble is, this big-headed fool is so arrogant that he actually thinks he can single-handedly swing history back in the other direction.

[MestaMachine]

If we don’t figure out how to remove him from office, he WILL do it, IS doing it....to US....with a lot of help from his “friends.”

[Piranha]

That is the failure of all utopianists (any group that believes in a revolutionary vanguard). When they find that they haven’t changed human nature, they resort to coercion and terror. Unfortunately, sometimes millions die and so many more are ruined physically, emotionally, spiritually or financially, before the utopianists — whether communist, socialist or fascist — are destroyed.