Wasn’t the world supposed to come together under this president? Wasn’t Barrack Obama’s election going to rekindle waves of good will from a world dying to love us? If we elected a leader who spoke in soothing non-judgmental multicultural “you’re okay, I’m unworthy” tones, the world would finally enter the Age of Aquarius, an age of “mutual respect,” right? Someone forgot to tell the rest of the world.
Obama’s previous pathetic pleas for unconditional talks with Iran’s killer clerics put him squarely on the side of a dictatorship that now brutalizes it own people. Obama’s efforts to enter into talks founded on “mutual respect” with one of the world’s greatest exporters of terror meant lowering America's presage to achieve eye-level contact with the Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the grizzly mullahs he serves. But Obama’s efforts are all for nothing.
Obamba’s weak condemnation of Iran’s crackdown on demonstrators was not well received by the man with whom he wishes to talk. "Mr. Obama made a mistake to say those things,” said Ahmadinejad of Obama’s dish-water rebuke of Iran’s leadership, “Our question is why he fell into this trap, and said things that previously (George W.) Bush used to say."
Meanwhile, Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez – who met and shook hands with President Obama at a recent meeting of the Organization of American States– condemned the president and European leaders for Iran’s unrest, “People are in the streets, some are dead, they have snipers, and behind this is the CIA, the imperial hand of European countries and the United States."
Lowering the United States to the level of third world dictators is not so much a sign of “mutual respect” as it is a symptom of our president’s moral cowardice. As the world should have learned from its experience with Adolph Hitler, whose actions on the world stage and toward his own people were an accurate indication of his unreliability as a treaty partner, madmen do not operate in good faith.
“Mutual respect” is a meaningless term. There can be no mutuality between the nations that liberated Europe from Hitler and rouge leaders that tirelessly seek to imitate him. By jumping into the diplomatic cesspool with the likes of Iran, Venezuela and Cuba for the sake of “mutual respect,” Obama erodes two of America’s precious and hard earned possessions – its moral authority and self-respect.
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