As a young boy, I saw a movie about the Alamo. In the end of that movie, the actor, whose name I don’t remember died in the most heroic manner possible. It was larger than life. Years later, I saw John Wayne in a different movie depicting events at the Alamo. While it was a different movie, with different actors, Davy Crockett still perished. Santa Anna still won the battle and lost the war. A few years ago, Billy Bob Thornton played Davy Crockett in yet another version of the movie. The story held no thrill for me, as I had actually experienced the movie twice before in my life, and the ending was known to me. (Billy Bob Thornton’s acting chops were certainly worth the price of the ticket however.) Different actors, a different director, a different producer, and different writers could not save poor Davy Crockett from his fate. Santa Anna, for a third time, won the battle and lost the war.
Today, we are all seeing a movie which originally aired in 1978. The events have me transfixed to my television, hungry for news, but just like the three versions of the Alamo, the suspense of how the story ends is not there. I have seen this movie before, I know how it ends. This one is a horror film for the U.S., the Western World, and most of all, Israel. Just like in 1978, I am listening to hippies tell me how wonderful it is that the youth movement is rising up against oppression. That we are seeing a brutal U.S. supported thug being swept aside by a population of people who are refusing to tolerate the shackles of servitude and bondage. In 1978, the movie ended with an even more oppressive and thuggish Islamic regime taking power and executing all of the young socialists who helped foment the fall of the Shaw. Despite all of the idiotic cries and pleadings from the left that this time is different. That this time the Internet has made the flow of learning and information so much more efficient, therefore providing the lessons which would prevent such a catastrophe from happening again. I realize that I heard a similar line in 1978 and I know how this movie ends. In the 1978 version of this movie, the role of the reportedly brilliant but weak U.S. President was played by Jimmy Carter who basically threw our ally under the bus by refusing to back him in his hour of need. That President came to office professing a foreign policy direction based on the difficult to objectively explain Human Rights, which meant ridicule for our Democratic Allies and a perverse and vocalized love for some of the most oppressive thugocracies on the planet. If that role sounds familiar, it is because we have the continuation of the Carter Presidency being played out today. Now, just as then, room for our allies is becoming scarce under the Obama Bus, thugocracies the world over are being praised as shining lights to culture and enlightenment, and an ally was abandoned in his hour of need. In 1978, once the Shaw left Iran, the void of power enabled the stronger and more ruthless elements of the Mullahs and Ayatollahs to take control of the revolution from the somewhat less experienced and naive students. Those same young democrats, socialists, and otherwise wide eyed innocent children became the immediate first victims of the new direction of the revolution. When thugs take over, the first victims are always those who helped usher them into power. The thugs realize that those who helped them at the beginning will be the most disillusioned and first to turn on them should they prove to be even more brutal than what they replaced. As a result, they will be accused and convicted of some crime against the revolution in short order. Nothing on the streets of Cairo today looks or sounds any different than Tehran from 1978. The Mullahs aren’t there, but the Muslim Brotherhood is. The Muslim Brotherhood is no social club, or philanthropic organization, despite their attempts to change their public image as of late. Al Quaeda, Hamas, CAIR, ISNA, MSA are all amongst its branches. They have been actively engaged in efforts to wage war against the U.S., Israel, and the west, since their inception. For the fools who say, the Brotherhood is too small to take over, all I can say, is that they are the only organization in Egypt with an already built infrastructure, they already operate in 80 countries around the world, and it was one of their branches which brought down the WTC, flew a plane into the Pentagon, and crashed a plane in Pennsylvania.
Knowing that this movie will end the same way, one wonders where our President was while this was happening. Well, here is how his new tone in foreign policy treats our staunchest allies. The insults leveled against the British by the Obama Administration run deep. I am certain that our special relationship with our cousins from across the pond will survive this Presidency, but that relationship will forever be altered for the worse. Here is how President Obama treats the world’s thugs. Put the last bit of irony in that link into perspective this way. The 2009 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize held a State Dinner to honor the man who holds the 2010 winner of that prize in a political prison. During the last three weeks, the world needed leadership from the President of the world’s only superpower. That leadership was woefully missing. Instead, we gave them a remake of a terrible movie produced in 1978. 32 years later, that 1978 film still haunts the planet. The repercussions of that horror film are still felt today. Now, the remake will be playing in another theater on the other side of town.
Crossposted at Musings of a Mad Conservative.
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