Seeing Red

This article from Fox News made me see red.

This is a new low for the American presidency. Our idiotic president invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House for a meeting. When Netanyahu refused to let Obama tell him how to run his country and did not agree to stop building settlements in his own capital of Jerusalem, Obama WALKED OUT on Netanyahu in the middle of the meeting to have dinner in private. He said Netanyahu could stay in the White House and let him know "if there is anything new."

What kind of way is this to treat a supposed friend and ally? Netanyahu is snuck in the back door of the White House, with no photographers permitted, and is left hanging when the U.S. president walks out of the meeting. As one Israeli newspaper put it, the Israeli prime minister received "the treatment reserved for the President of Equatorial Guinea." This is a public humiliation of the only democracy in the Middle East and our only reliable ally on the War on Terror in that region of the world. Israel exists in an increasingly anti-semitic world and is surrounded by enemies whose stated goal is to wipe her out of existence. One of those enemies, Iran, is developing nuclear weapons. Europe despises Israel. We are their only real ally in the world. And now our president, who can't even bring himself to use tough rhetoric (much less tough action) against terrorist-sponsoring, election-rigging, dissident-murdering Iran, goes ballistic against Israel over a lousy building development.

This behavior is worse than just childish and petty (although it certainly is that). This tells me where Obama's real sympathies lie. And they are not with our country's democratic values. How many times does Obama have to suck up to anti-American dictatorships and terrorist-sympathizing Muslim states while publicly snubbing democratic allies before we realize that he doesn't share our country's values? He bends over backwards to accommodate our enemies but gives the back of the hand to our friends. Hugo Chavez is Obama's amigo but Netanyahu can't even get the normal respect given to any overseas visitor, much less a friend's welcome? Iran and North Korea and Russia get whatever concessions they want out of Obama. He agitated to get the socialist president of Honduras reinstated (he was deposed for openly violating the country's constitution). At the same time, in one year in office he has succeeded in angering England, France, Germany, Japan, and most of Eastern Europe. He has filled his Justice Department with attorneys who have spent their lives defending and apologizing for terrorists. And it shouldn't come as a surprise to any of us, because this guy sat under the preaching of "Reverend" Jeremiah Wright for 20 years. You know, the preacher who said "God damn America" and said that our country deserved 9/11 and that our government deliberately injected inner-city blacks with the AIDS virus. Obama counted terrorists like Bill Ayers among his friends and associates in Chicago. And now we're surprised because his foreign policy is anti-American and he is destroying decades-old alliances and friendships? His entire view of the world is upside down and backwards because his mind has been poisoned his whole life by anti-American friends and mentors.

Every time I hear about Obama's latest outrage, I keep thinking that it can't get worse. And then it does.

Thoughts on Peace

I wanted to do a follow-up to Some Dude's excellent post about the Nobel Prize. Some Dude pointed out the reality of evil in the world. In my view, the only way to have genuine peace and genuine freedom (which I think always go together) is for this evil to be confronted and either defeated or restrained in some way. Stated more clearly, sometimes war is the only way to achieve peace and freedom.

I think there are many examples in history of this. Neville Chamberlain, the prime minister of England during Hitler's rise to power in the 1930's, signed bogus treaties with the Nazis and returned to England saying "Peace in our time." Of course, there was no peace because appeasement of evil dictators does not lead to peace. The British prime minister who ultimately helped bring about peace and freedom to Europe was Winston Churchill, who was willing to confront and defeat the Nazi threat (with lots of help from the US). The reason South Koreans are able to live in peace and freedom right now is because we fought the Korean War to stop Communism from advancing. And more recently, Ronald Reagan's willingness to speak the truth about the evils of Communism and to stand up to it by means of military buildup, strategic military confrontation, and a refusal to sign unenforceable "peace" agreements resulted in the disintegration of the Soviet Union and collapse of the Berlin Wall. The legacy of Reagan's presidency is a significant period of global peace and a great rebirth of freedom in Eastern Europe. Remember these lessons from history next time you see a bumper sticker on a car that says "War is not the answer," or you hear Barack Obama trying to achieve peace through appeasement of Iran.