Pamela Geller, American Thinker: Obama Has Dismantled America

my piece in today's American Thinker on Obama's tearing down of America.

Obama Has Dismantled America

By Pamela Geller, American Thinker, September 26, 2013

Does
the extinguished candle care about the darkness?  Ask the huddled
masses who are  yearning to be free.  America was once thought of as a
light unto nations.  Obama has single-handedly extinguished that light.

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I saw it all coming.  In my 2010 book The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America,
I noted that one student who was interviewed after an Obama town hall
meeting during his first presidential trip to Europe in 2009 said
happily: "He sounds just like a European."  That is, not like an
American president who loves his country.  And he doesn't: asked during
that visit to Europe about American exceptionalism, Obama answered: "I
believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect the Brits believe
in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek
exceptionalism."

In
other words, he didn't believe in American exceptionalism at all.  In a
seminal moment for modern historians and active political observers
like myself, a snapshot came across the newswires in May 2008, showing
candidate Obama crossing an airplane tarmac, mid-gait, and holding
Fareed Zakaria's American epitaph, The Post-American World.  In the photo,
Obama is holding his place in the book with his finger, as if he didn't
dare put it down and wanted to dive back into it as soon as he could.

The
vicious Zakaria describes his book this way: "This is not a book about
the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else."  In
it, he details the era he hopes we are entering now — a world in which
the United States would "no longer dominate the global economy,
orchestrate geopolitics, or overwhelm cultures."  He asserts that the
"rise of the rest" is the "great story of our time, and one that will
reshape the world.  The tallest buildings, biggest dams, largest-selling
movies, and most advanced cell phones are all being built outside the
United States.  This economic growth is producing political confidence,
national pride, and potentially international problems."

Obama
seems bound and determined to drive America over a cliff and make
Zakaria's vision of the future a self-fulfilling prophecy.  Obama went
to work from his first day in office to make Zakaria's wishful thinking
about America's decline a reality.  As the most powerful man in the
world, he would level the playing field, even if it meant cutting
America off at the knees.  Good and evil would be made equivalent, with
evil sanctioned by the world's only remaining superpower.  He turned
against our allies (particularly Israel) and showed them that America
could not be relied on.  He taxed us into poverty and stirred up racial
strife to make us all less safe.  He has enabled Russia to re-emerge as a
world power, and the Islamic jihadists are bolder than ever.

Obama
vowed to make America just another nation — unexceptional — and he
has.  It's not that other nations have risen.  They haven't.  It's that
Obama has dismantled American hegemony and diminished our standing in
the world.

And
so, during the Muslim massacre at a Nairobi mall, whom did Kenyan
officials call for help?  They called Israel.  Obama is Kenyan, with
close relatives in the country.  It is his native land, the country
where his father was born.  So you might think he would have sent help,
but his father (and stepfather) were Muslim; perhaps that is why he
always comes down on the side of the jihad.

Where
is the media coverage?  This is Obama's native land — where is his
condemnation of the vicious sharia?  His silence is sanction and
support.

And
in general, the U.S. is glaringly absent in this worldwide fight for
freedom against Islamic jihad killers.  Here is where America should be
leading from the front, or the side, but at least from somewhere.  I am
ashamed for my country.

Kenya
has been a beacon for democracy in Africa.  But Africa has come under
the boot of Islam under a post-American U.S. president who is aiding and
abetting the global jihad.  Obama aided Islamic supremacists in Egypt,
Libya, Tunisia, and Algeria.  And Islamic supremacists have been waging a
vicious jihad in Mali, Nigeria, Sudan, Ethiopia, Tanzania…the whole
continent.  This is the horror of Islamic supremacism.

Egypt, in a fierce rebuke of Obama and his patronage of the Muslim Brotherhood, on Monday banned the Brotherhood.
 Here in America the Muslim Brotherhood should be designated a
terrorist organization like Hamas (an MB group), along with its proxies
in the U.S. such as CAIR, ISNA, MSA, and MAS.  Despite Egypt's massive
rejection of Islamic supremacism, and despite the recent rash of Muslim
on non-Muslim attacks, the jihad-aligned media is digging in and whitewashing Islam and jihad, while doing everything they can to make Obama look good.

But
despite their best efforts, that task is getting harder and harder.
 And the absence of America acting in the defense of freedom across the
world is proof that Ayn Rand was right when she said that "the spread of
evil is the symptom of a vacuum.  Whenever evil wins, it is only by
default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can
be no compromise on basic principles."

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And the Obama presidency is an epic moral failure.