The Hypocrisy Of It All (Part 1: Foreign Policy)

Most politicians are too often hypocritical. But no one has been more prolific at it than President Obama. It reaches a serious level when his hypocritical actions make it difficult to determine where he stands on the important issues of the day.

I list here some examples to illustrate how easy it should be for his opposition to demonstrate the extent to which he is willing to sacrifice all principles and reason to talk his way to re-election in 2012. I begin with foreign policy issues since I believe that his actions there have the most potentially damaging affect on our freedom. Part 2 will cover domestic policy issues.

Obama sets a high priority on security; yet he has been cutting the defense budget which will eventually lead to decimated defense systems. We are in a war with totalitarian Islam that will not end soon; we must take the lead in weapon technology and be prepared for the worst.

He pushed hard for the START treaty on the premise that it was necessary for our future security. But the treaty ended up giving Russia far more flexibility for nuclear armament expansion than the U.S. and he betrayed important British military secrets to get even that. His call for general nuclear disarmament has already started a wave of new nuclear armament elsewhere.

He speaks out about human rights. Then he ignores them, either in the interest of trade (e.g. with China) or out of fear of reprisals (e.g. in the M.E.). He acts concerned about the oppressed people in totalitarian countries. But he has failed to support the Iranians and Syrians during revolution.

He claims to understand who are enemies are and how to deal with them. But when N. Korea fired artillery at S. Korea, he had his Defense Secretary pressure Kim Jong-il to “show restraint”; and as a result, Jong-il resigned in disgrace.

Obama is at his worst in dealing with Israel. He says he strongly opposes terrorism, but he appeases Muslim states that support it. Then he says “our commitment to Israel’s security is unshakeable" as he pressures Israel to concede to anti-Western Palestinian (and his) demands, to accept a Palestinian state that may be run by a terrorist organization (Hamas), and says “the borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines.” He is essentially asking for Israel’s demise! While presumably relying on his arrogant belief that his magical negotiation skills will cause Palestinians to play fair, he is actually seeking to de-legitimize Israel by naively making its concessions the key to achieving peace.

In his 6/09 speech in Egypt, he opposed terrorism; but he demonstrated that his goal was (in some sense) to join Muslim nations - the only terrorist nations - in their campaign against Israel. Who was he primarily speaking to? The Muslim Brotherhood, a terrorist group that he deems to be for freedom and reform.

He knows recent Muslim history; yet he talked about the importance of working with M.E. Arab governments "that reflect the will of the people" and desire democracy and "freedom to live as you choose." Then he cut support for programs in Egypt that promoted democracy.

He pushed for reform in Egypt, helping oust Mubarak; but that too was against his anti-terrorist stance since any successor regime will likely be Islamic totalitarian. The U.S.’s greatest Arab ally could very well become its and Israel’s greatest enemy.

He strongly supports financial aid to our allies. But he once threatened to cancel aid to Israel, our only ally in the M.E., and continues to fund terrorist nations there.

He campaigned for the Presidency as an anti-war candidate. Since, he has either followed President Bush’s lead in Iraq and Afganistan or become more aggressive. He now even wants to “promote reform across the (M.E.) region.”

He said he would close Guantanamo; he believes it to be immoral and represents torture which he refuses to accept. It still remains open.

He opposes interrogations used to gather information from terrorists, but he approved the assassination of OBL.

Information gathered through interrogations contributed to OBL and other terrorist captures; yet his Attorney General has been pursuing charges against the interrogators involved.

He started a “non-war” in Libya based on humanitarian concerns - not a just cause for American involvement - that was supposed to last only for weeks. But he has not helped ensure that its people will overthrow Gaddafi - the only cause of such inhumanity. And he totally bungled the initial effort: “relinquishing control” to the UN and NATO, failing to have a clear goal, supporting the rebels despite al-Qaida links, etc.

We now know that this is very much a war, it will last more than 6 months, being essentially in charge of NATO is not truly relinquishing control, and it will cause many deaths.

As he has involved himself with a non-threatening Libya, he has essentially ignored Syria and Iran, the true threats to the West in the Middle East. He foolishly sees Assad as a “reformer.”

So much for being serious about terrorism!

He pretends to appreciate our superior economic system that has enabled the highest prosperity; but then he apologizes to the world for our successes as if they have been at the expense of the more oppressed in the world.

He appears concerned about anti-American attitudes around the world. But instead of accepting it as a given and as expected envy, he finds it to be merely an issue of leadership; thus his naïve belief that he can negotiate for peace with our enemies. Worse is his blindness to the anti-American attitude among our own elite and his own past and present personal associations. He does not even realize that his own ideology is anti-American and that his foreign policy is wholly antithetical to U.S. interests.

All of Obama’s hypocrisy results to a great extent from being unable to recognize good from evil - our allies from our enemies. That, in turn, makes it too difficult for him to know the importance of size, strength and global reach of our military. And that makes it too difficult form him to know how to fight for America’s freedom and the protection of our rights. He has become a threat to our security.