Posted by
Bryn T. Jones on Sunday, April 26, 2009 12:44:19 AM
The Obama Administration has done the absolute best job of living up to my expectations. Unlike the more charitable folks I hear on the radio and read in the press, I was not so willing to discount all the evidence of his radical upbringing to even entertain the thought that he would, as they liked to hope, govern from the center. He wouldn't and he isn't.
President Obama is following lock-step with the radical agenda that he had wanted all along: use the fear, crisis and turmoil to gin up enough confusion to expand a large, central government control on the country. While President Bush took the battle to the folks who wanted to do our country harm, Obama has become the enemy from within, turning his guns away from the terrorists and bad men and focusing the country he swore to serve.
The latest example, of course, is the decision to allow the former administration to be prosecuted regarding the enhanced interogation techniques. The Statist Left (also known as the Democrats) have given in-person apologies to the world for our strong stand against tyranny and our President just high-fived and brother-hand-gripped Hugo Chavez, a brutal dictator (who seems to be writing Obama's playbook for the years ahead). With the release of our supposed 'torture' memos, we've alerted our very real enemies that we do less than slap detainees. Where they chop off heads and desecrate bodies of the lucky ones they capture, we engage in psychological techniques like playing pop Christmas albums, books on tape, leave them in rooms with a catepillar, keep them awake for long periods of time (kind of like a college cram session, I'd say) or, in the most agregious cases (3) make them think they're drowning. Please note, pain is never an option. Unlike Jack Bauer of 24, we don't bust fingers off one by one, shoot detainees through the leg and then point the gun at the other knee-cap or even pretend to kill a person's family starting with the youngest. Also, our techniques are video-taped, documented, and reviewed to make sure they are not too harsh.
The only reason the enemy video-tapes the beheadings is to further their terrorist agenda and weaken our nation's resolve. Well, they can say mission accomplished. Our country, by hook or by crook, has elected a man who is unwilling or unable to stand up for one of the greatest countries of all time. He points the finger at our country, much like the pastor who was his 'spiritual mentor.' And in the process, he's shown our cards to the enemy.
Now we will live with two grave results, which are not even inclusive of the notion of criminalizing former administrations over interpretations of the law. What we have done is to let terrorists know that we will treat them better than our own citizens get treated in the average office cublicle culture (which is rife with psychological discomfort and pressure games). We've put them on notice that we might simply ask them what they intend to do to us, but then settle for offering them tea and crumpets if they won't tell. Second, we've put those charged with keeping us safe, the intelligence community and various law enforcement personnel on notice that if they do what they need to do to get vital information to protect innocent civilians, they might just get their jobs and/or livelihood handed to them for the trouble.
President Obama is Jimmy Carter 2.0. He's weak or deluded on foreign policy and national defense. He's either a central planner in denial of the obvious effects on any economy or he's devious and simply wants to grab more power for himself like a despot leader. He's indifferent to the country that has treated him well enough to elect him President. I'm not sure what is the greatest flaw in the whole mess that we have before us. My prayer is that, despite Obama's machinations with the economy, the natural industry of the American people will override the destruction he's heaping on us. We've done it before, we can do it again.