- Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.) - Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself" US poet (1819 - 1892)
Metaphors are an apt tool to use when trying to define a complex subject. Barack Hussein Obama is as complex a subject as it gets in politics. He spent, or some suggest, misspent his youth avoiding defining himself. He hides his history with a vigor that a master criminal would envy. He hides his motives even deeper. Alas, this has never seemed more true than with his foreign policy adventures since becoming President. I wonder who he sees when he looks in the mirror? A President? A savior of minorities around the world? Or as a Dictator?
For the past weeks President Obama has made it crystal clear that he shouldn't be the Commander-in-Chief of the United States Armed Forces in a time of war. He has been as transparent as mud. He has not even shown the faintest hint of being a competent leader as he and his Administration have played the most confusing game of Brinkmanship with the Middle-East's democracy[sic] movements; approving one day and objecting the next.
He is driving both the far-left and far-right into furious fits of rebuke as his in-decisions and curious in-actions compound upon themselves. President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and have appeared on opposite sides of policy at times since the “pro-democracy” protests started to consume the Middle-East. We were either met with confusion, contradiction or downright silence.
The pro-democracy protests started in Tunisia in December of 2010 as a young student protester set himself on fire, purportedly in protest of Tunisia's ruling family's accumulation of wealth, while leaving the youth of Tunisia and its college graduates jobless. It became the Facebook and Twitter Revolution as pro-democracy students and activists posted the chronology of events on the internet for all to see. The fuse had been lit. On January 14th, 2011, after weeks of silence, Obama's issued his first official statement on the crisis:
“The United States stands with the entire international community in bearing witness to this brave and determined struggle for the universal rights that we must all uphold, and we will long remember the images of the Tunisian people seeking to make their voices heard. I urge all parties to maintain calm and avoid violence, and call on the Tunisian government to respect human rights, and to hold free and fair elections in the near future that reflect the true will and aspirations of the Tunisian people.”
By the 19th of January President Obama was assuring Egypt's Hosni Mubarak that he had his back. On February 1, it is reported by Arron Klein at WorldNetDaily.com that a high U.S. Embassy official was meeting with the Muslim Brotherhood to discuss Egypt's future after Mubarak “falls”. On February 1st, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was calling for an “orderly transition of power” to democracy.
That same day Mubarak announced he would not run for re-election in the fall, Obama issued a statement that the transition must start now. On February 10th, Mubarak raised the hopes of the demonstrators with a “big announcement”. Protesters and governments across the world thought this was his resignation announcement. He told the multitude of cheering students, activists and countless people caught up in the revolutionary reverie that he wouldn't leave until September. Fierce riots broke out and the next morning, on February 11th, Mubarak finally announced his resignation.
After maintaining an eerie silence on Libyan leader Muammar el-Qaddafi's assault on his own people in the aftermath of the Tunisian and Egyptian uprising, Obama finally made a statement on February 23rd about Libya but never mentions Qaddafi by name. On March 17th the UN Security Council issues its order for a no-fly zone between Libya's revolutionaries and Qaddafi's military forces. President Obama commits planes, ships and munitions to another middle-eastern "conflict" and says we'll be out of Libya soon or maybe not; it depends what time of the week it is.
Qaddafi prefaced a letter to President Obama on March 19, 2011, as reported by the Times of India:
"To our son, his excellency, Mr Barack Hussein Obama. I have said to you before, that even if Libya and the United Sates of America enter into a war, god forbid, you will always remain a son. Your picture will not be changed."
I suppose this means Obama will still be welcome among the Libyan elite if they survive this fiasco and there is every indication that both Obama and Qaddafi will survive.
The Obama Administration's collusion on the uprisings in the Middle-East are also reported to have begun as early as 2008. It was reported in the January 28th, 2011 issue of the London Telegraph that the U.S. Embassy in Cairo assisted a young dissident in attending a U.S.sponsored summit-for-activists in New York City in 2008. The same dissident was part of the Egyptian demonstrations in January, 2011.
During the Egyptian riots International Unions and many communist organizations participated in the riots. Disturbingly, planners included the U.S. State Department sponsored Alliance for Youth Movements. They worked together to stir up the demonstrators across the Middle-East. The AYA movement is a world wide cabal that involves pro-democracy movements across the world: Anti-FARC in South America, pro-democracy activists in China, activists in most middle-eastern countries including the April 6th Youth Movement. The State Department partnered with private sector companies such as: Facebook, Google, Pepsi, MTV, AT&T, Howcast, Access 360 Media and the Columbia University Law School among others to promote techniques that activist could use to protest their oppressors under the guise of helping youth organize. The current protests are not spontaneous demonstrations or movements.They have been planning these insurrections since 2008 and probably before.
What does Obama actually see in the mirror these days? Does he have the same malady that Alice in Wonderland Land had after she went through the looking glass; everything looked backwards? Is he just hiding his true identity; that of a soft dictator, the face behind a movement. This doesn't bode well for his leadership in the United States. How does he account for his lack of decisiveness? He is the master of contradiction and unfortunately the executor of our fate..
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