Monday, October 8, 2012

Big and Astonishing News Happened Over the Weekend


Hugo Chavez won his re-election bid for the Venezuelan Presidency.  Is anyone surprised that Chavez won?  He is a socialist dictator that has been controlling more and more of Venezuela’s media.  Of course, he’s also going to move to control the electoral process.  Evil people in power tend not to want to give up their power.  “Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely” is a good axiom to remember when dealing with evil dictators and big government.  The real question is if we’re going to try to help countries to either choose freedom, or choose democracy, which countries do we help?

President George W. Bush’s two main countries that his Administration focused on were Afghanistan and Iraq.  Going into Iraq and Afghanistan started out to be battlegrounds in the larger war on terror.  They eventually became projects in helping Iraqi’s and Afghani’s build democracies with free and fair elections.  Our problem in those countries were that we thought they could build new free governments in a year or two, when it took us 13 years to get our Constitutional Republic under the current Constitution.

President Barack Obama chooses countries like Libya and Egypt supposedly to spread democracy for “humanitarian reasons.”  The problem President Obama has created for himself in those countries is that he has supported known Islamic fascist organizations like the Muslim Brotherhood, as if they’re going to spread freedom for those people.  The Muslim Brotherhood is going to be just as dictatorial as Qaddafi.  They might even be more radically Islamic than Qaddafi.

President Obama seems to be all too eager to go into other countries for “humanitarian reasons” like Egypt and Libya, but won’t help the people in Iran during the green movement or the people in Venezuela against Chavez.  However, Mubarak and Qaddafi, as evil as they were, President Bush’s Administration was able to convince them to help us fight terrorism in the Middle East.

Two of the biggest enemies of President Bush’s Administration were Venezuelan President Chavez and the Iranian President, but it’s the opposition in those two countries President Obama just so happens to seemingly ignore.  Moreover, it’s Mubarak and Qaddafi, who started helping Bush fight terrorism, that President Obama decided to oppose.  Where are President Obama’s true priorities in foreign policy?  It seems to be the exact opposite of President Bush’s policies.

America is the greatest country on earth and we are the only country with the moral integrity to hold the torch of liberty and lead the fight for liberty all around the world.  The increasingly shrinking world and the increasing number of evil leaders in some countries that have desires to destroy other nations is the cause that America must stay involved in the world.  We cannot afford to isolate ourselves.  However, we are an independent and sovereign nation.  We should still prudently base our foreign policy on our own American interests before we get directly involved in some foreign crises.  We should focus on promoting the ideas and principles of freedom, rather than specific forms of government.

International relations are a complex chess game that America is playing for the cause of freedom and liberty.  We don’t just have one enemy in the Middle East.  We have a enemy in the Asia-Pacific region known as China.  Russia threatens our Eastern European allies and us.  Iran is our primary Middle Eastern enemy that could reach all the way down Africa as well.  We also have a Communist enemy in Venezuela by the name of Hugo Chavez in the South American region.  If America isn’t careful, our enemies are going to realize that there isn’t much difference between Communism and Islamic Fascism.  The only difference is that one is secular and the other is religious.  America is the only country right now that is in the position to show strength and clarity in our resolve for peace and freedom against the forces of Secular Communism and Islamic Fascism.

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