"Who's On First?"

Two questions if I may?


Firstly, can this administration be consistent about anything? And a corollary of the first; Can this administration do anything right — particularly in terms of foreign policy?


Back on the campaign trail in 2008 and before, Obama’s drumbeat when he stopped yammering about “Hope and Change” and “Yes We Can”, was about reestablishing America’s reputation in the world. Enough of “cowboy foreign policy” and “interference in the business of foreign governments” he declared.


Well once in office, that lasted just about as long as his commitments to get us out of Iraq and Afghanistan, close Gitmo, abandon the Patriot Act and introduce “transparent” government.


For right at the beginning of the administration, a situation in Honduras developed where the socialist president decided to cling to power. That president was ousted on orders from the Honduran Supreme Court. The Obama Administration joined Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro to demand that the president be reinstated. Strange bedfellows for an American to chum up with unless you happen to be a socialist yourself.


Thankfully Obama backed down eventually and the Honduran people kept their country dictator free.


But then, when it came to the uprising in Iran after their bogus elections; nothing!


All too often throughout history, an overthrow of a government might seem to be a good idea at the time but it’s important to wait a while to see how it actually pans out.


Go back to seventeenth century England when Charles I lost his head by popular acclamation but this was followed by decades of bigotry, persecution and repression by Cromwell’s Commonwealth.


Now fast forward to 1789’s storming of the Bastille in Paris which led to yet more heads rolling during “The Terror” and eventually to a war encompassing all of Europe and parts of Africa.


Now try 1917 when the Tsar was ousted from Imperial Russia and was replaced by a democratic parliamentary system. But not for long as seventy years of horrific slaughter and the deaths of millions were ushered in by Lenin and then by Stalin.


And who can overlook that, after the end of World War I, the Weimar Republic didn’t fare much better as it was soon replaced by Hitler and his Nazi thugs.


In other words, a revolution is one thing while the subsequent revolution or the aftermath of the first is another thing altogether as evidenced by the ouster of Batista from Cuba.


But neither the evidence of history, nor his own declared intent, prevented Obama from strong-arming the Egyptian president to step down. So now we have the government in the hands of the Egyptian military. Since when has an army, any army, been the darling of the liberal Left? Heck, they even detest our own for the most part!


And, if all this wasn’t bad enough, not only were the goals of our interference suspect at best, the handling of the mess was reminiscent of Abbot and Costello’s “Who’s on First”. In short, incompetent.


The administration appointed a special envoy with whom they promptly disagreed.


CIA Director Leon Panetta admitted he got his intelligence from watching TV and Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden were all giving different prediction statements. One can only assume that the latter three got their views of the Egyptian issue by watching television as well but via different news networks. 


Then, worse yet, the head of National Intelligence claimed the Muslim Brotherhood is a secular organization. 


Kinda' like an Islamic Elks Club?  


Can these people do anything right?