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Card Article
September 23, 2012 | 10:13 PM
"If we had a president who understood or cared about the interests of the United States, the response to a government-sponsored attack on our embassy in Egypt would have been, at the very least, an immediate freeze on all Egyptian and Libyan funds in the United States, the cancellation of all shipments of military and nonmilitary aid to Egypt, the recall of our embassies and consulates from both countries, and the announcement that all Americans were to leave both countries at once."
Card is speaking of two newly-formed governments, two places in which revolutions have just occurred, Revolutions that we have ASSISTED. It is simply wrong to imagine a nation, the wealthiest nation in the world, backing out, throwing up its hands, playing the whiny toddler and saying "Well, you hurt us a little so now it's up to you - good luck." Egypt is a nation with an enormous hand in the energy industry, and even more importantly, an immeasurable influence in the fate of our ally, Israel. Should Egypt give the word, Israel is done. If you look at history, Egypt is the single Middle-Eastern country that stepped in a few decades ago and said "Listen, I think we can be allies with Israel because 1. There's no good reason to fight and 2. There are good reasons, namely trade and an alliance with the United States, TO be allies with Israel." Since that time, every country surrounding Egypt, including Iran, Iraq, and most powerful, Saudi Arabia, has pressured Egypt to give up its alliance and allow those countries to destroy Israel and establish Palestine. If we were to abandon Egypt, Egypt would abandon us, abandon Israel, and abandon any control over the Middle East. Total chaos would break out and we might face World War III. I do not think that is a foreign policy stance.
Please actually look at Mitt Romney's response to Obama's recent Libya policy for yourself. Look at what he said when protests in Libya were first revealed, and then look at what he said when the ambassador was killed. Also, so you don't think that somehow the media likes Obama (which it doesn't, it hates and pans him all the time), please look at the media response to Obama's original invasion in Libya. Before he sent any troops, the media said "It's a disaster in Libya, and Barack Obama is too wimpy to send anyone over there to fight and help out." They said "Libya is a valuable source of oil and a newly established government, and the fact that our President isn't ballsy enough to send any men says a lot about his failings in foreign policy." So guess what he did? He sent men into Libya. When he did, the media had a revelation. "How could he?!" they said. "When have any American lives been worth a fight in Libya? We're not even allies! What do they need OUR help and OUR resources for? That Barack Obama would spend lives, time, and money on Libya says a lot about his failings in foreign policy."
Card writes, "Remember that the main concern of the academic/media elite of the US after 9/11 was never to identify themselves with the American flag if they could help it, never to rerun the footage of the collapsing towers in order not to "inflame" public opinion, and to regard American actions as the "cause" of the "outrage" of the oppressed people of other nations, who were thus completely justified in hating the US.
These are Obama's people. They're faintly embarrassed to admit they're Americans. Mrs. Obama felt that her husband's election was the first time she could be proud of America â€" and the academic/media elite completely agreed with her.
These people don't like America. They're ashamed of America. And Obama is their creature."
This is entirely offensive, and so untrue I don't even have words. Orson Scott Card does not have his facts right. Please check them for yourself. I don't know where he created these views from, but they're entirely wrong. Find me one person in the Obama White House who's embarrassed to admit he's an American. Obama is the most American President we've ever had. He represents American values, he represents equality and peace and generosity and a spirit defined by working together. Since when did this world, or this country for that matter, become about every man for himself? When did we decide that America would stride forward past all other nations because, when it comes right down to it, who cares about everybody else? What kind of way is that to run a government? I'm sorry, but Card is just incorrect. Purely incorrect.
"They hate America's tradition as a Christian nation â€" because they hate Christianity."
FREEDOM OF RELIGION, HELLO? I'm pretty sure that's in our Constitution. Now, the Constitution is America's tradition -- NOTHING else. Not one religion, not one sexual preference, not one race. Nothing. Just the Constitution, where our rights in this nation are laid out for us. I'm sorry, but I don't live in a Christian nation. I live in a nation where I don't expect everyone to be Christian, and I don't feel at all bad for being Jewish.
"He promises Putin that when he's reelected, he can be more helpful to Russia's plans for dominating their portion of the world.
He expresses his envy of the Chinese government, which doesn't have to put up with the interference of an opposition party."
FIND THIS. Find me where Obama said these things. And then I'll believe them. Until then, they are absolutely the most absurd statements I have ever read. ENVY of the Chinese government? So we're back to calling Obama a communist? Good, I didn't have enough of that in '08.
This is the most ridiculous diatribe I have ever read.
Jake Smith
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