Men erect walls around other men. Men can knock them down. Today marks the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the first crack in the Soviet System, perhaps history's largest and most feared empire.
The celebration held in Berlin today was conspicuous by the absence of the president of the United States. It is interesting that the leader of the most powerful nation in the free world would not attend such a historic commemoration of such a watershed event.
But why should he attend? After all, this gathering commemorates an event which sent shock waves throughout the world and right into the heart of the Kremlin, and resulted in fall of the Old Soviet Union and its satellites of captured and imprisoned nations.
Of course, one would expect the President of the United States to be present at such a historic occasion, but he was not. Not this president. Why should he attend?
Though this is an event which began the unraveling of the most pernicious empire in modern times; the president did not wish to be a part of a celebration which stood outside of the movements of wars and struggles of "national liberation" movements around the world; what some call Communist Revolution.
This was not a celebration of a Communist Revolution, therefore this president whose work as community organiser with ties to organizations and individuals from Marxist-Leninists to Maoists, many of whom he's staffed his administration with; did not become party to it.
This is how he is quick to condemn and bring to bear every force necessary against Anti-Communist Honduras, but can't bring the same energy against the tyrannical governments in Caracas, Havana, Tripoli, and Tehran.
Consider what appears to be inconsistent on the part of Obama - Honduras Communist President attempts to pass legislation suspending his nation's Constitutional restraint of multiple presidential term - rather call him on this, when the armed forces of Honduras remove him for suspending their Constitution; Obama springs into action against Honduras and its people in order to force them to reinstate the Communist president.
Consider also that this is the first president to authorize 900 million dollars in aid to Hamas in Gaza, a terrorist entity that shoots rockets into Israeli cities on a daily basis in order to kill innocent Israelis.
The first US President with strong pro-Palestinian points of view, and shares with them his own views on wars of national liberation which he considers the Palestinians as currently being engaged in against Israel.
When meeting earlier this year with Venezuelan dictator Victor Hugo Chavez, begins measures aimed at opening relations with both Communist Cuba and Venezuela, while snubbing Columbia and Peru.
When Iranians protest en mass on the streets of several cities in Iran, Obama does nothing, completely nothing when their secret police and revolutionary guards crush the protests and make mass arrests and detentions across the country, while continuing to develop nuclear energy and missile systems to carry the payloads. In the face of this, Obama does nothing.
When Russian forces crush the armed forces of Georgia, a former satellite nation of the old Soviet Union, Obama does nothing.
So with such a history, why are we to expect Barak Hussein Obama will honor the first major event that caused the downfall of a system of government he is trying to bring to the United States under the guise of change?
Perhaps Obama didn't attend the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall because for once, he didn't have anything to apologize for, so he stayed home.
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