Obama naive or conniving?

Posted on March 20, 2008

How can someone so woefully ignorant of World History from just the past century present himself as “the next US President”? Look closely at this Quote from Obama:

We should be more modest in our belief that we can impose democracy on a country through military force. In the past, it has been movements for freedom from within tyrannical regimes that have led to flourishing democracies; movements that continue today. This doesn’t mean abandoning our values and ideals; wherever we can, it’s in our interest to help foster democracy through the diplomatic and economic resources at our disposal. But even as we provide such help, we should be clear that the institutions of democracy – free markets, a free press, a strong civil society – cannot be built overnight, and they cannot be built at the end of a barrel of a gun. And so we must realize that the freedoms FDR once spoke of – especially freedom from want and freedom from fear – do not just come from deposing a tyrant and handing out ballots; they are only realized once the personal and material security of a people is ensured as well.

BARACK OBAMA, speech, Nov. 20, 2006

Does he really not understand that Germany, Japan, Italy and South Korea were ruled by tyrants that we deposed militarily and that we then created within these countries the that stable environment in which Democracy was able to take root and flourish? Does he believe that the Japanese people defeated their Emperor by revolution? That the German people rose up and overthrew Hitler? That if we had sat back and not entered the “civil war” in Korea that the people of South Korea could have survived the communists and come to be the economic powerhouse they are today?

Can he be that naive? Or is he simply choosing to forget history and lying to the people to win their votes?

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