Obama's Complicity

Former President Barack Obama recently called the October 7 massacre of over 1400 Israeli civilians by gun toting Hamas terrorists “inexcusable,” but then went on to offer an excuse by claiming that it could be only understood by considering years of history in the area. In his remarks he went even further and said that “all of us are complicit to some degree.” Just who was he referring to when he said that all of us are complicit?

 

Was he referring to himself? Was he referring to his own failure to solve the problems in the Middle East during his eight years as President. Was he finally assuming responsibility for the attack on the American embassy in Benghazi, or for the rise of ISIS during his tenure? Was he referring to his own wife and daughters? To what degree were they complicit?

 

Was he referring to the current President. After all, didn’t Obama say of his own Vice-President, “If you want something f---ked up, give it to Joe.” To what degree is Biden and his administration complicit? Actually, the leading members of the Biden foreign policy team were all members of the Obama administration. What is their degree of complicity?

 

Maybe he means that the whole Democratic party is complicit, including progressive radicals like the so-called Squad, some of whose members have openly expressed their detestation of Israel? Can he mean that the protestors on college campuses are complicit? 

The answer to all these questions is No, No, No, No, No.  Of course, when Obama says that all are complicit, he is not referring to his own family or political friends and allies. He is referring to an abstraction. Politicians like him can never bring themselves to blame a real person who commits a crime. Whether it be a mugger, a looter, a rapist, or Hamas gangster, they cannot call them out but implore us to consider their actions in context, or in the light of history.  Some progressives even consider looting and shoplifting to be a form of reparations.

 

On the other hand, when protestors entered the Capitol on January 6, 2021, people like Obama never urged us to put the event in context or consider the historical background of that protest. The protestors were immediately branded as insurrectionists out to overthrow the government. Eventually, some were brought to trial, convicted, and given prison sentences unlike the left-wing protestors who attacked and burned Federal buildings in the previous summer. 

 

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