Friend of Dictators

Barack Obama sat silent during the early hours of brutal suppression of those who did not accept the rigged outcome of Iran's election. To this moment, after a river of blood has darkened Iran's streets, Obama expresses eagerness to dialogue with Ahmadinejad-this after Robert Gibbs congratulated the Iranians after "their exercise in democracy", mostly as a sop and pat on the back to Obama himself for his Cairo speech. In his first meeting with Hugo Chavez, Obama exhibited warmth and accepted a book blaming the US for all of Latin America's ills. Obama is opening the door to improved relations with the Castro brothers and the island they have turned into a prison. Diplomatic outreach toward Assad, who chains Syria and cuts a murderous swath through Lebanon, is being conducted under the false hope Syria can be separated from Iran. All this ingratiating Muslim enemies while placing unprecedented pressure on the beleaguered, democratic Jewish state to make suicidal concessions. Now, Honduras is aflame as her military, courts, and Congress recognized they were about to have a Castro-like president for life and took action to thwart the rise of a dictator. Obama sides with the presumptive tyrant. Obama sides against freedom in a constitutional crisis abroad, perhaps because he wishes himself enduring autocratic power here.