Makes it neqar impossible to overcome the domestics who make that a point of their own editorials/comic routines/newspaper “articles” and political campaigns, for the mindless many take that at face value and oppose action.

So, here “we” are paralyzed before the world.

Don’t forget the one at the top told the world in Europe and Egypt we are worthy of their disgust.

Yep…no “L” in Obama.

That is very hard to listen to.
My response.

We want to come.
We would come.

but if we do we are hated for it and called imperialists, occupiers, dictators, and worse.
and if we do nothing?
the same, only the words are different.
damned if you do, damned if you dont.

so what do we do?
Mr. President?

Which only points out that Hanna Arendt was correct: There IS a significant difference between Totalitarian regimes and merely Authoritarian ones–despite what leftist critics say. The Shah was an authoritarian–there were limits to his cruelty and desire to control every nook and cranny of society beyond which he would not go. Totalitarians, by contrast, are driven by visions of absolute truth that brooks no opposition and demands that all share it’s vision totally in every aspect of their lives. As such, such people and regimes can brook no disagreement–let alone opposition–as why would one opt for anything else once the absolute truth has been revealed? Or, as one Muslim “militant” said in Iraq about the first round of elections: “Why do we need a Constitution when we have the Koran?” It is no accident that the first impulse of totalitarian regimes such as the old Soviet Union is to put their dissidents in psychiatric prisons. For surely anyone unsatisfied after THE TRUTH has been revealed must, perforce, be certainly insane.