Paul Mirengoff wrote a must-read commentary on President Obama’s Anti-Americanism.
On the morning after the deadliest instance of Islamist terrorism in the United States since 9/11, President Obama warned the American public not to “jump to conclusions” about the motives that impelled Nidal Hasan’s rampage of mass murder at Fort Hood.
By the time Obama issued this warning, it had already been reported that Hasan yelled “Allahu akbar” before he opened fire. This assertion of the supremacy of Allah is invoked by Islamic terrorists worldwide before they kill.
It was also known that Hasan’s fellow participants in an Army program on public health had complained to military authorities about Hasan’s anti-American propaganda.Hasan had made a presentation that justified suicide bombing and argued that the war on terror is a war against Islam.
Yet no conclusions were warranted, as far as Obama was concerned.”We cannot fully know what leads a man to do such a thing,” our “philosopher in chief” intoned.
Obama has not always been cautious about jumping to conclusions.When a white police officer in Cambridge, Mass., arrested an African-American Harvard professor, the president was quick to proclaim that the officer had “acted stupidly.”Obama was soon forced to back away from that statement, which was based on ignorance of the facts.
There is no underlying inconsistency between these seemingly divergent responses. Both are founded on the same antipathy Obama harbors toward America.
Obama prematurely concluded that the professor’s arrest was improper because this conclusion comported with his view that American law enforcement officers habitually harass black Americans. In Hasan’s case, it was imperative to resist the obvious connection between Islamism and the killings because, in Obama’s view, Americans habitually are on the verge of persecuting Muslims.
As the president’s wife once put it, America is “just downright mean.”
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In the area of foreign and national security policy, however, Obama can operate largely unchecked. And a weak, guilt-ridden policy toward our foreign adversaries is almost certain to produce grave consequences.
To some extent, we have seen this act before. The damage of just four years of Jimmy Carter’s America-effacing presidency included Soviet expansion, communist inroads in Latin America, the replacement of a friendly government with a virulently anti-American theocracy in Iran, and a prolonged hostage crisis that came to symbolize the new American impotence.
But although Carter was ambivalent about America, his efforts to promote democracy abroad showed that he thought we had something to offer to world.Obama will not grant America even that.
Emulating Carter the ex-president, rather than President Carter, Obama has shown essentially no interest in human rights or democracy promotion.His belated support of the Iranian protesters following this summer’s election could hardly have been more lukewarm.
It seems that, in Obama’s view, all we have to offer the world is our non-interference in its affairs, except perhaps when it comes to bullying our allies.
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