What Does Obama Believe?

Please disregard, it was an imposition!

Fresh from Obama’s “big talk” to the Middle East, we have mixed messages from the Commander-in-Chief on the role of the U.S. in the lives of other countries.  But before we get into his trip to Cairo, let’s examine something he said at the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany:

The president said Buchenwald “teaches us that we must be ever-vigilant about the spread of evil in our own time, that we must reject the false comfort that others’ suffering is not our problem, and commit ourselves to resisting those who would subjugate others to serve their own interests.”

While very true, this sounds like something John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, or George W. Bush would have said.  Indeed, Kennedy and Reagan both called for the Berlin Wall to come down and Bush increased U.S. aid to Africa more than any president before him.  I find Obama’s remarks curious mainly because he has rejected the term “terrorism” and replaced it with “man-created disasters” which completely removes the entire “spread of evil” thing.

Before the remarks above were made Obama said this in Cairo:

But I do have an unyielding belief that all people yearn for certain things: the ability to speak your mind and have a say in how you are governed; confidence in the rule of law and the equal administration of justice; government that is transparent and doesn’t steal from the people; the freedom to live as you choose. Those are not just American ideas, they are human rights, and that is why we will support them everywhere.

Again, powerful stuff that sounds like it would come from one of the three presidents mentioned above.  As good as these words are, what immediately preceded it rendered those words meaningless:

I know there has been controversy about the promotion of democracy in recent years, and much of this controversy is connected to the war in Iraq. So let me be clear: no system of government can or should be imposed upon one nation by any other.

So you must ask yourself, why should these corrupt leaders of theocratic dictatorships even care what Obama’s thoughts are as to how they run their governments?  And, whether you agreed with the U.S. going into Iraq or Afghanistan, do you really think the peoples living in those two countries under murderous leaders feel that their new democracies are controversial?  Who considers “the promotion of democracy” to be controversial?  Obvioulsy the fat, corrupt dictators who would murder their own people in order to prevent true choice in their countries do.  As the leader of the oldest representative republic in the world what is Obama thinking?

You've been bought and paid for thanks!

Please explain to me how the first statement about being “ever-vigilant about the spread of evil in our time” goes with “no system of government can or should be imposed upon one nation by any other.”  We have not “imposed” democracy on Iraq or Afghanistan.  In fact, both of those countries have done things with which we don’t agree but we have not interfered with their decisions.  And, historically speaking, the U.S. wrote the Japanese constitution and “imposed” (to use Obama’s words) democracy on them and nation which is now one of our best allies and an example to the world as to how to develop a stable, free society in the aftermath of bloody warmongering.

One has to wonder, if Obama had been president during WWII, would Japan or Germany be the free, open, prosperous countries that they are today or would what Truman decided to do have been considered an imposition?

Barrack Hussein Obama missed a once-in-a-lifetime chance to bring a Muslim-Christian perspective to the debate, an example of how open and free the United States is.  Instead, he blew it.  Even the Iranian leader knew it:

Iran’s supreme leader, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, for instance, immediately called the Obama speech “sweet and beautiful talks to the Muslim nation … that will not create a change,”  adding that Israel is still a “cancerous tumor in the heart” of the Muslim world.

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