{"id":16074,"date":"2009-12-14T08:30:58","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T13:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=16074"},"modified":"2009-12-14T08:30:58","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T13:30:58","slug":"ignoring-allies-and-cuddling-with-tyrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=16074","title":{"rendered":"Ignoring allies and cuddling with tyrants"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this morning’s Wall Street Journal<\/a>, Con Coughlin tries to explain why the Obama Administration treats our staunch ally, the British so poorly. <\/p>\n

Before he became president it was said that Mr. Obama harbored a deep grudge against Britain for its colonialist past. It is alleged that his paternal grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama, was tortured by the British during the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya in the 1950s, when it was controlled by Britain. In his autobiographical book “The Audacity of Hope,” Mr. Obama unflatteringly compares the British Empire to South Africa’s apartheid regime and the former Soviet Union.<\/p>\n

Soon after his inauguration, he sent back to the U.K. a bust of Sir Winston Churchill that had been loaned to President George W. Bush after the 9\/11 attacks. The sculpture had enjoyed pride of place in the Oval Office.<\/p>\n

There is also an important ideological reason that Britain’s leading policy makers find themselves increasingly shunned by the U.S. Key foreign-policy advisers to Mr. Obama are keen advocates of a federal Europe, one in which the European Commission based in Brussels is the main center of power and influence, rather than the individual capitals, such as London, Paris and Berlin. In this context, Britain’s dogged attachment to a “special relationship” with America is regarded as an embarrassing relic of a previous era.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, he treats the British poorly because of something may have done before he was born, but he cuddles with the Iranians and Hugo Chavez despite things they’ve done and continue to do during his presidency. That makes sense – especially since he sees history as a record of class struggle.<\/p>\n

Iran tested components <\/a>that could be used in nuclear weapons just a few years ago. Hugo Chavez calls the US an “overt threat”<\/a> to Iran and the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of the Americas (ALBA). Bolivia’s Evo Morales charges his opponent in the last election with corruption <\/a>to send a message to his opposition. But the Obama Administration sees Hondurans acting within the confines of their constitution as a threat to human rights.<\/p>\n

Something doesn’t smell right here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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