A legacy of failure
After all, it was Jimmy Carter that enabled Islamic fundamentalism to take root in Iran through his support in deposing Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. It’s very likely true that the Shah was a son-of-a-gun that established SAVAK, a secret police force that brutally suppressed any political opposition against the regime. But in point of fact, he was our son-of-a-gun who supported progress and to a great degree, western ideals.
It was under the Shah’s rule that Iranian women gained the right to an education, a development that was much lamented by connoisseurs of fine Persian rugs, because young Iranian girls went to school instead of spending their days hand tying thousands of tiny knots to form exquisite and expensive carpets.
Of course, the witless Jimmy Carter was very concerned about human rights abuses in Iran and through his various machinations created the conditions under which Ayatollah Khomeini was able to seize power from the Shah, and thus replace the hated SAVAK with the current SAVAMA, an organization whose brutality far exceeds that of SAVAK.
Khomeini rewarded the hapless Carter by invading the US Embassy in Tehran and holding American Diplomats hostage for 444 days, releasing them on the very day Ronald Reagan was sworn is as President. There’s little reason to ask why, because we all know what Reagan would have done had those hostages not been released.
Thus, Jimmy Carter's “foreign” “policy” is directly responsible for the resurgence of fundamental Islam in the Middle East, among numerous other disasters, both foreign and domestic.
Nearly 4 decades later another Democrat President takes up where Jimmy Carter left off, naively and narcissistically believing that he could tame the Islamist beast. He started with his Cairo apology tour, recounting how evil America had in the past mistreated Islam and under his administration this mistreatment would be rectified.
Of course, no such thing has happened. In fact, the damage this President has done far exceeds anything for which the clumsy and misguided Carter is responsible. The so-called Arab Spring was a Pollyanna fantasy that belied reality. Obama’s claim that the Muslim Brotherhood is a secular organization is akin to claiming that the Vatican isn’t Catholic. And many Americans, as well as America’s traditional allies, believe that Obama supports the Muslim Brotherhood and all it stands for.
How else could one explain the administration’s support for the ouster of Hosni Mubarak, who kept Egypt out of the grasp of Islamists for over 30 years? And when the Muslim Brotherhood finally gained control of Egypt their policies revealed a dark and evil agenda that included the destruction of Israel, imposition of extreme Sharia law and persecution of Christians and other religious minorities.
This is what the President of the United States supported? Really?!
Thankfully, the Egyptian army couldn’t stomach Egypt regressing into a medieval cesspool and quickly eliminated the Islamists, including the despicable Mohammad Morsi, whose favorite names for Jews was “pigs” and “monkeys”.
It’s a small wonder that so many Americans suspect Obama of secretly being a Muslim. If there wasn’t so much evidence of his bumbling incompetence, one could believe that he had a hidden agenda to strengthen Islamist influence around the world.
Yes, he gave the order to kill Osama bin Laden, an order that many proclaim was an act of courage. I see nothing courageous about it, as it seemed more of an opportunistic move to garner political support. Hence Vice President Joe Biden’s endless crowing about GM being alive and bin Laden being dead during the 2012 election.
I once believed that Obama was evil. I have since then become convinced that this is not the case. He isn’t evil, but merely hapless, naïve and lost in a fantasy world where he believes things are as he wishes rather than as they really are.
How else could one explain his insistence that al Qaeda is “dead” on the very day that American diplomatic properties were being stormed in both Egypt and Libya? And while on the subject of Libya, to what end did Obama want Muammar Kaddafi deposed? Granted, he wasn’t a very nice person by western standards, but he was also harmless, having surrendered his weapons of mass destruction when the US took down Saddam Hussein. Now Libya is a wasteland of warring factions. And the weapons that America supplied to the Libyan “rebels” are now in the hands of ISIS and Hamas to kill Jews and other Muslims.
Obama’s “red line” in the Syrian sands stands as one of the modern age’s all-time powder puff bluffs, as Bashar Assad blithely eradicated that line by using his chemical weapons against his enemies. His explanation that the red line wasn’t his, but was laid down by “the world” is demanding that everyone who has a computer or television suspend his or her disbelief! Are people really this stupid, or is Obama so besotted with his infallibility that he can just dictate reality through his teleprompter?
Someone has finally convinced this deer-caught-in-the-headlights president that he needs to take action against ISIS before there is public demand for his impeachment. But then, as they say at the Pottery Barn, “You break it; you pay for it”, as Obama is directly responsible for the situation in today’s Iraq. Had he left a contingent of American troops on the ground there, as George W. Bush urged back in 2007, Iraq would not be at risk of descending into an Islamist hell hole.
His reaction to the ISIS outrages is also too little too late, in that most military experts believe that ISIS cannot be defeated through aerial bombardment. In addition to the bombs, there is also a need for boots on the ground. Does anyone really believe that the Iraqi or Syrian army can defeat ISIS? If they could they would have done so already and I fear that this latest tentative step will result in an even bigger disaster.
Having someone like Carter and Obama in the White House isn’t so much a reflection on either of the two, as it is on the American people. It appears that Americans are suckers for anyone that promises them an easy ride. It didn’t work with Carter and it’s not working with Obama. America can survive a Jimmy Carter and a Barack Obama. The real question is, can America survive its misinformed, class envious and easily distracted citizenry?
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