Posted by
Lucas J. Boy on Monday, June 15, 2009 7:30:39 PM
It should come as no surprise that President Obama finds inspiration in the life of Dr. Martin Luther King. What’s more perplexing, perhaps, is that the president has, in fashioning His foreign policy, taken His cue from another luminary of twentieth-century thought, the eminent and renowned philosopher, Rodney King, who’s entire body of work can be encapsulated rhetorically in his singular dictum C-c-c-can’t we all just g-g-et along?. Stirred by the plaintive cry of this heart-felt prescript, the professorial Obama and His Ivy-League policy wonks have brilliantly applied it to geopolitics. (A corollary to the Rodney Doctrine, as it’s referred to by the State Department, is an Obama innovation known as Abject Americanism—not to be confused with American Exceptioalism—which can be expressed as “we’ve been very, very bad and we’re really, really sorry”.)
So far, given the “election” in Iran and with that police state defiantly pursuing the bomb, the NoKos imprisoning American citizens and itching to go nuclear, Hamas still lobbing missiles at civilians in Israel, homicide bombers continuing to target Baghdad mosques and markets, Chavez flirting with Russia and China and threatening to export revolution throughout Latin America, a wobbly Pakistan a hornets’ nest of Islamo-fascists, a resurgent Taliban in Afghanistan, Putin salivating at the prospect of subjugating Georgia and other regions to restore the glory of Mother Russia, genocide in Darfur, Gitmo like a bad rash that just won’t go away, Somali maritime thugs impersonating Captain Jack Sparrow, the Saudi royals financing al-Qaeda, Tibetans still being devoured by The Dragon—did I miss anything?—so far, The Prince of Peace’s strategy seems to be working!