Posted by
Laura L. Hollis, JD on Monday, March 22, 2010 8:01:53 PM
John Bolton is sharply critical of Obama
in an article today, and warns that America is less safe as a result of this administration's conduct, and that our enemies are watching. In that, I agree with him. But Bolton gives President Obama the benefit of the doubt by crediting Obama with wanting to appear even-handed by chastising our allies while ignoring flagrant abuses of power by adversaries.
I beg to differ.
First, Obama cares not one whit for foreign affairs or national defense, and never has. His interest in "foreign policy" extends only insofar as he can milk the wealth of this country to distribute it to third-world nations around the globe.
Second, Obama has little sympathy for democracies elsewhere, or peoples who are struggling to establish them. His sympathies, in fact, lie with dictators and tyrants who can achieve their objectives with the elegant simplicity Obama so admires, and without the messy "democratic process" which has so burdened him. He gladhands Hugo Chavez and Daniel Ortega not because he has to tolerate them, but because he admires (and perhaps even envies) them.
The success of western democracies, in Obama's skewed worldview, is a function of their economic oppression of others. But when faced with real (which is to say,
political) oppression by government, Obama shrugs, bored.
If you want to make an omelet, you've got to break a few eggs.