{"id":5082,"date":"2014-07-27T14:20:56","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T19:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rampartsofcivilization.com\/?p=5082"},"modified":"2014-07-27T14:20:56","modified_gmt":"2014-07-27T19:20:56","slug":"just-being-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rampartsofcivilization.com\/?p=5082","title":{"rendered":"Just Being There"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Barack Obama<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

With the continuing dismal news proliferating daily that would unsettle the most secure supporter of the President of the United States, President Obama continues to see his role as the one time assumed leader of the “free” world as that of a disinterested bystander. \u00a0The log of upsetting events propels unabated …<\/p>\n

Fragile and timid Iraqi forces struggle to mount any kind of cohesive response to the aggressive radical forces of the ISIS terrorist network attempting to establish a caliphate. \u00a0Syria continues in armageddon spiral downward in a battle of primitive and ruthless wills of the government and those same ISIS forces with an entire country’s population at their mercy. \u00a0A catastrophic collapse of organized government in Libya is in its death throws against hordes of radical cells unleashed by America’s extraordinarily incompetent decision to overthrow Libya’s dictator with absolutely no strategic plan to inject in case of success. \u00a0Israel and Hamas are treated diplomatically as equals in a battle for survival for the middle East’s only true democracy, facing a foe that uses women and children as human shields. \u00a0Russia lops of an independent country’s sovereign land in Crimea, funds and supplies with sophisticated weaponry a group of thugs led by Russian intelligence officers to destabilize the rest \u00a0of the country, then haughtily stands by as these same thugs shoot a civilian airliner out of the sky with 300 innocents aboard.<\/p>\n

At home, tens of thousands of illegal immigrants pour across the nation’s sovereign border destabilizing the local economies, the health care facilities, and destroying the concept of a nation’s sovereignty. \u00a0The economy groans under the weight of trillion dollar deficits. \u00a0Government agencies designed to be impartial, function as the enforcement arm of a marauding government looking to instill its socialist \u00a0political philosophy on its citizens. \u00a0Even supporters of the President stand in anxious concern as the issue after issue piles on the impassive executive, putting to risk their electoral survival in November.<\/p>\n

Yet the passivity continues. \u00a0The golf outings. \u00a0The vacation to the Vineyard. \u00a0The fundraisers with star elites.<\/p>\n

For the intelligent and the logical, \u00a0the trail of disasters with no reaction is no longer explainable by incompetence. \u00a0There is the desire to attempt to conceive an overarching plan or strategic concept at work, to attempt to define how an apparently intelligent man could be standing by so idly while all around him collapses. \u00a0Charles Krauthammer, the insightful Washington Post columnist has convinced himself there is a method to the madness:<\/a><\/p>\n

The preferred explanation for the president\u2019s detachment is psychological. He\u2019s checked out. Given up. Let down and disappointed by the world, he is in withdrawal.<\/p>\n

Perhaps. But I\u2019d propose an alternate theory that gives him more credit: Obama\u2019s passivity stems from an idea. When Obama says Putin has placed himself on the wrong side of history in Ukraine, he actually believes it. He disdains realpolitik because he believes that, in the end, such primitive 19th-century notions as conquest are self-defeating. History sees to their defeat.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice\u201d is one of Obama\u2019s favorite sayings. Ultimately, injustice and aggression don\u2019t pay. The Soviets saw their 20th-century empire dissolve. More proximally, U.S. gains in Iraq and Afghanistan were, in time, liquidated. Ozymandias lies forever buried and forgotten in desert sands.<\/p>\n

If you believe this, then there is no need for forceful, potentially risky U.S. counteractions. Which explains everything since: Obama\u2019s pinprick sanctions; his failure to rally a craven Europe; his refusal to supply Ukraine with the weapons it has been begging for.<\/p>\n

The shooting down of a civilian airliner seemed to validate Obama\u2019s passivity. \u201cViolence and conflict inevitably lead to unforeseen consequences,\u201d explained Obama. See. You play with fire, it will blow up in your face. Just as I warned. Now world opinion will turn against Putin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For most in our nation’s capital, it is important to find a rational basis for actions that seem so divorced from reality. \u00a0The nation has assumed a level of elevated intelligence in the man that would be a nation’s transformer, its savior – as declared in the triumphal exuberance of the reports of Obama’s prowess when elected. \u00a0The smartest chief executive ever. \u00a0A brilliant multidimensional thinker who puts to shame the minor intellects opposing his programs. \u00a0An international savant who sees with clarity the flaws of past administrations and will lead the world to a cleaner, safer, more tolerant and civilized place.<\/p>\n

But what did we really know of this man? \u00a0A college and law school grad upon which no records of assessment have ever been released. \u00a0A community organizer trained at the feet of some of the most radical elements of American dissonance. \u00a0A single term state senator who rarely registered a vote of conscience. \u00a0A U.S. Senator who didn’t complete a single term.<\/p>\n

What was the preparation or training for this individual who desires to overthrow all the tenets of a carefully constructed relationship of a government with its people, a world with its stabilizers. \u00a0What was the actual level of intellect, the depth of understanding of this individual.<\/p>\n

In 1979 Peter Sellers projected onto the cinema screen a epic character named Chauncey Gardner who projects through his simple opacity and feebleness anything a person wants to see in him. \u00a0He becomes a mirror for all who want to see great depth in his thoughts, and are embarrassed to admit they don’t see what others see in Chauncey. \u00a0Perhaps this president is simply Chauncey Gardner, who is leading this nation as a mirror of what everyone hoped they had elected, \u00a0the savior of the human race and a great nation twisted upon itself. \u00a0To Chauncey his goals are simple. \u00a0He wants to tend to his garden, and help things grow. \u00a0The caos we are living through may not be the carefully laid radical solutions of a master politician, but maybe just a nation’s gardner who sees his role as just Being There.<\/p>\n