We are experiencing one of the most tremendous upheavals of post WWII Earth. The biggest trouble spot in the world is flat going crazy and the entire balance of power in the Middle East is changing. The oppressed people of the region are rising up everywhere(ish) and challenging the dictators, tyrants, theocrats and generic thugs that have kept the iron sandal on their necks for so long. Well this is opportunity right, a chance for the United States to make a bold move and at least ally ourselves with the huddled masses yearning to be free, No? The entire Arab street is aflame with crazy talk about freedom and liberty and standing shoulder to shoulder with these nascent patriots is our President reminding the world that we actually believe what our founding documents say. Not quite. The sad thing for America is to see how diminished we can be on the international stage when our policy is rightly understood to be diminishment. Barack Obama has brought a consistent and concerted policy of reining in an America he feels has been running amok all over the planet. He wants to take all of the great power of the American state and use it to control the American state and by extension the American people. Now that is a political philosophy of social democracy, which is about as far left as progressives think they can lean without having to actually cop to socialism. But in Obama’s case the policy fits the man and he becomes very easy to understand when seen through the proper lens. Barack is a beta male. Roll that around in your melon and savor it for a minute or two. It will go a long way toward explaining both his domestic policy of nanny knows best and his foreign policy of thank you sir may I have another. He studiously avoided any instance of professional responsibility and consequently there was no record of his to be judged when he ran for President. Look at his reactions to all the major challenges he has faced so far. The Great Dithering over Afghanistan, the outsourcing of health care to Reid & Pelosi, his speechifying (in Cairo even) about how America is just gonna be everyone’s pal and stuff, his global Kowtow Karavan, pissing on the heads of our truest friends the Brits and telling them it’s raining. He appeases our enemies and insults our friends. Now he is in the middle of his greatest non-performance, the Middle Eastern Dithering. Once he made that clear it removed him as the actual leader of the free world, just as he wanted. America has no business claiming exceptionalism and telling anyone else what to do. We have too many problems of our own to even consider bossing around other countries. It has been there in every message he has put out to the world at large. “We are sorry” and “We won’t do it again”. Now he is free to do what he does best, aside from campaigning, nothing. He can’t be pushed to make a substantive decision because he can’t be certain what the consequences will be and he doesn’t have the stones to face the music. He will wait and simply mouth platitudes until the smoke clears and he can see the prevailing winds. It is also a classic beta male move. Counsel caution and then if anything bad happens be there with a “tut, tut told you so” and then just adopt the new reality and mouth a few more platitudes. It is infinitely safer than leadership, and is actually the exact opposite of leadership. It is also the exact strategy our Beta Male in Chief has used in every confrontation. If you get out in front bad things can happen.
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Feb 22 2011, 12:45 AM
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