President Obama said that he would not meddle in Iran’s elections by putting pressure on their ”soveign democracy” to investigate what is globally seen as corrupted results, in effect supporting a mini-dictator who’s threatened to carry out genocide on Israel (as well as being the biggest arms supplier to terrorists in Iraq).
This week, President Obama takes the side of Honduran mini-dictator Manuel Zelaya who tried to forcibly and unconstitutionally remain in office past term limits, going as far as calling the protection of their consitution and government-backed removal, an illegal coup.
President Obama prides himself as a constitutional scholar, and must know that his actions fly in the face of the most rudimental laws governing free elections and has taken the wrong side of two major foreign policy issues in only a few weeks time.
He is thus far establishing a very clear trend of jumping to the support of dictators instead of their oppressed citizens. These are not the actions of a caring and compassionate man of the people. Compounding his ineptness is the breaking of US tradition by bowing to foreign kings and pushing for direct negotiations with unsavory dictators who smuggly defy the most basic human rights of their citizens. His first action as President was to write glossy “can we be friends” letters to those who oppress and abuse the people of their nations.
This President’s foreign policy failures are massive and stand in stark contrast to his campaign promises of a global Utopia under his tutelage. North Korea, Iran, Cuba, Russia, and China, have all been thumbing their noses at President Obama and US interests. It’s easy to criticize former President Bush for his lack of eloquency at times, but one thing remains clear – he understood the psychology and danger of menace states and dealt with them in a manner that does not reward bad behavior.
Even Obama’s staunchest supporters must realize that any further rationalization or support of his foreign polcies thus far, are not in line with the American people’s feelings or interests and are lying with straight faces to their consituents about ther merits of the President’s actions.
