Suicide of the WestThe Petulant Pretender
By Mark
Alexander
"Our cause is noble; it is the
cause of mankind!"
—George Washington (1799)
As I wrote for Monday's
edition, on the same day that Barack Obama was peddling his failed foreign
policy of appeasement and insisting that the Islamic State was
"contained," surrogates of what he'd previously characterized as the
"JV Team" slaughtered more than 129 civilians in a well-planned and
well-executed act of Islamist barbarism.
And later,
although the terrorists had repeatedly yelled "allah akbar" during
their murderous onslaught, Obama responded by saying, "I don't want to speculate
at this point in terms of who was responsible for this."
During the
Democrat debate in Iowa on the day after the slaughter in Paris, presidential
candidate Bernie Sanders doubled down on his assertion that the most pressing
threat to our national security remains — Obama also repeatedly insists —
"climate change."
Tellingly, Hillary
Clinton didn't take issue with Sanders' analysis.
Arnold Ahlert
analyzed the threat of al-Qa'ida and Islamic State Jihadist masquerading as Middle
Eastern refugees, while Paul Albaugh evaluated the risk of Obama's
immigration "Trojan Horse." Louis DeBroux, in his analysis on
the suicide of the West, noted that our greatest potential threat may be the
amplification of Obama's already colossal foreign policy failures if enough
Americans are duped into voting for Hillary Clinton in 2016.
And the
absurd and surreal utterances of Obama at a press conference in Turkey, which
included the following: "I’m not interested in posing or
pursuing some notion of American leadership or America winning.”
Ponder those words against a backdrop
of past Democrat presidents:
·
"The
only thing we have to fear is fear itself." —Franklin D. Roosevelt
·
"America
was not built on fear. American was built on courage, on imagination, and on an
unbeatable determination to do the job at hand." —Harry S Truman
·
"Let
every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any
price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe,
to assure the survival and the success of liberty." —John F. Kennedy
I've said before, though it bears
repeating: Our nation's once-noble Democrat Party has morphed into a corrupt
political machine that its original protagonists would hardly recognize.
After chastising those who dared to
question his failed policies,
Obama insisted, "There will be an intensification of the strategy that we
put forward, but the strategy that we are putting forward is the strategy that
ultimately is going to work. But as I said from the start, it’s going to take time.”
Of course, there is no strategy and the time "it's going to
take" is the duration between now and the clean-up effort of the next
Republican president.
The Washington Post's
editorial board accurately described Obama's remarks as "petulant," while the New York Times' Roger Cohen
observed, "Where was the anger in that Obama press conference? I'm in Paris.
His words fell shamefully short of sentiment here."
If Obama has lost the
Post and the Times, we can be assured that he's lost just about everyone who
isn't on the White House payroll or sporting an Obama Phone.
Two weeks
ago, I wrote a column on Obama's repetitive reference to "our shared
values" and "who we are as a nation," as if he is the ultimate
arbiter of our national values.
This week, Obama
rolled out that same drivel, this time regarding concerns about
inadequate vetting of Syrian immigrants. He claimed such concerns were "a
betrayal of our values. ... That’s shameful. That’s not American. ... That's
not who we are." Instead, he defined his narrow agenda and proclaimed,
"Those are the universal values we stand for."
Apparently, Obama believes that we can
run highly reliable background checks with the help of Syrian butcher Bashar
al-Assad.
For the record, more
than half of the nation's governors have now registered objections against the relocation of
Syrian migrants to their home state's suburbs, and for good reason. Recall
that virtually all the Islamist assaults on our home soil were committed by
Muslim refugees/immigrants. That would include the July murder of four
Marines and a Navy Petty Officer by a Palestinian immigrant in Chattanooga.
And
meanwhile, John Kerry, in Paris this week, noted that the Islamist attack there
in January was "legitimate."
Thank you, as always, for standing
with us.
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