One of the greatest pieces of literature ever written was Don Miquel de Cervantes epic, 17th century, two volume work: Don Quixote of La Mancha.
Published in 1605 and 1615 Cervantes created two fictional characters: the protagonist a retired 50 year old man, Don Quixote; who given to incessant reading of chivalry lost all touch with reality, then creating his own; and his squire, the steadfast, Sancho Panza who questioned Quixote’s sanity but obediently followed his master from one conflict to the next.
Looking back upon the past six years of President Obama’s presidency, even once ardent supporters are beginning to realize, four hundred years ago, Cervantes may have been prescient in his thinking.
Playing the part of Sancho Panza, former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton and current occupant of that post, John Kerry have abetted the president in one misadventure after another. Viewing the world imaginatively, bereft of American leadership, he’s managed to alienate friends while emboldening America’s enemies.
From the outset of his presidency, Obama embarked upon his infamous mea culpa tour of the Middle East. Bypassing the only constitutional, democratic country in the Middle East, Israel, he culminated his trip with the nefarious Cairo speech of June 4, 2009.
Blinded by reality the speech was replete with disingenuous paragraphs such as: “I have come here to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world; one based upon mutual interest and mutual respect; and one based upon the truth that America and Islam are not exclusive, and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles, principles of justice and progress; tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.”
Long persecuted Copts present in the audience might vehemently have disagreed. Islamic common principles of justice, tolerance, and dignity for all human beings which overlap with that of America? People less blinded with his rhetoric may also have asked when last a person was allowed to practice Christianity, Judaism, or any other religion for that matter in Saudi Arabia? Shared value with America? Awash with misogyny, homophobia, honor killings and other foundational maleficence, Sharia law is the quintessential antithesis of American constitutional values.
Why bring up a speech given by a nascent president five years ago? Where is its relevance today? Simply, it was this speech that foretold a mendacious president and a disastrous foreign policy for years to come.
Like our fabled character, Don Quixote, President Obama has constantly spawned his own reality. Then as now he’s refuses to come to grips with the unmistakeable fact that we may not be at war with Islam but Islam is certainly at war with us.
In 2012, Dr. Sebastian L. v. Gorka, Military Affairs Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said: “The Obama Administration is rapidly revising federal counter-terrorism training materials in order to eliminate references to Jihad and Islam.” He went on to say: “The administration believes there are “good” Islamists and “bad” Islamists and the former can be dealt with. He said this policy is apparent in the decision by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to have contact with the Muslim Brotherhood “Supreme Guide” Mohammed Badei.” The same Muslim Brotherhood that hatched such wonderful groups as Al-Qaeda, Hamas, and Hezbollah, yet was erroneously described by Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper as a “largely secular organization.”
Pushing this fantasy of an idyllic, Islamic world, one which shares the values of American constitutional law, the president has succeeded emasculating law enforcement domestically as well as the nation’s military.
In November 2009, screaming “Allahu Akbar” (God is great) as he shot and killed thirteen fellow soldiers, maiming thirty others, former army psychiatrist, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan recently asked to become a citizen of ISIS. Despite numerous communications with his mentor, the now deceased American born terrorist, Al-Awlaki, and by his own admission: “I don’t think what I did was wrong because it was for the greater cause of helping my Muslim brothers,” the Administration still refuses to categorize the Fort Hood massacre as an Islamic terrorist attack. For reasons of their own they continue to depict it as work place violence. Shunning abundant evidence of Hasan’s affiliation to Islamic terrorism. Both the FBI and the military, most likely for career considerations allowed this loose cannon to succeed with his mayhem. Grievously this trend has continued.