The United States is
staggering under the tyranny of a lawless President, who is shredding
constitutional restraints to impose his quasi-socialist, amoral, and racially
preferential policies on a divided and confused nation. This same President has repeatedly usurped the
legislative role assigned to Congress by the Constitution, most recently in an
effort to salvage his disastrous health care control legislation by arbitrarily
repealing and revising its provisions in whatever manner best suits his
political purposes. Even more
menacingly, his Administration is abusing federal law enforcement to punish
political opponents (like Dinesh D-Souza) and has wielded the enormous power of
the IRS to harass and suppress conservative political groups and organizations (like
the Tea Party) that dare oppose his oppressive policies.
Meanwhile, this same Obama Administration not only
tolerates the wholesale violation of the Nation's borders by massive illegal
immigration, but actually seeks to facilitate and award such de facto invasion by millions of
Mexicans by categorically refusing to enforce the deportation laws -- and then
demanding the enactment of amnesty legislation to reward those who participate
in the lawless invasion of our country.
But never mind such ominous domestic misgovernance and oppression. Put it all aside and under the rug. There are more
convenient scapegoats for opportunistic face-time demagogues to pillory on CNN,
Fox News, and the lapdog networks. Like
the President of Russia and the parliament of the Crimea – neither of which is
responsible for any of the horrendous problems pressing upon us here at home.
Washington's warning against foreign entanglements may fit the Ukraine Fiasco like a glove.
The most prominent leaders of the Republican
opposition – in lockstep with the liberal media and the Democrats -- have
suddenly discovered what they apparently consider a far graver national crisis: a remote and
esoteric Eurasian dispute between a dubious provisional government imposed by rowdy Ukrainian street rebels and pro-Russian forces occupying the longstanding
Russian stronghold and naval base on the Crimean peninsula.
While the constitutional rights of American Christians
and conservatives are crushed and abused at home, bloviating senators and
Secretaries of State rush to the microphones to shed crocodile tears over the
fate of Ukrainian street factions of uncertain integrity and affiliation – just as
these same maudlin poseurs backed the
"democratic" street mobs of Cairo
and Tripoli to the great ultimate cost of innocent Christians in Egypt and
Libya.
It is not surprising that duplicitous Democrats are seizing
upon the distant distraction of the Ukrainian
imbroglio to divert attention from the looming domestic disasters
of Obamacare, economic stagnation, an emasculated U.S. military, and the
government-led destruction of the institution of marriage. That is the kind of duplicity that one expects
of the Obama sycophants and deranged leftists who control the Federal
Government, the major media, and the Democrat Party.
But it is exasperating when those who should
be leading the resistance to our domestic oppression step forward to serve as
"useful idiots" to divert the
nation's frustration towards a convenient foreign scapegoat and bogeyman – namely, Russian
President Vladimir Putin. To borrow from Matthew 23:24, Republican leaders who meekly "swallow the camel"
of unconstitutional oppression at home race before the cameras to rail furiously
against the relative gnat of a remote dispute arising thousands of miles from
our borders -- and still further from our genuine national interests.
The preoccupation of GOP senators like Marco Rubio and
John McCain with the vastly exaggerated U.S. interests in the Ukrainian crisis
provides them a convenient opportunity for avoiding the far more immediate and
pressing crises right here in the United States. Here at home, Obama, with the assistance of
the courts and his leftist minions in the agencies and legislatures, is
relentlessly suppressing religious freedom by forcing Catholics and other
Christians to subsidize abortions and to celebrate homosexuality and so-called
same-sex "marriage." Yet the
likes of McCain, Rubio, and the unctuous Lindsey Graham are far more outraged -- and far more eager to take a stand -- in response to Russia's unsurprising assertion of its
national, naval, and security interests in the distant Crimean peninsula.
But the chorus of condemnation against Putin's surgical intervention in Crimea studiously ignores the fact that there are other
contestants in the Ukrainian arena, and none of them are to be confused with
the angels. To put it mildly. The Ukrainian street rebels of the Maidan include ultra-nationalist
fascists and anti-Semites, not to mention a virulently anti-Russian
element. The violent rebels in Kiev that
overthrew the corrupt and incompetent – but duly elected – Ukrainian Government
are decidely a mixed and motley crew. But they are surely not to be confused with Jeffersonian democrats, however much
American media and politicians promote that impression.
Meanwhile, the European Union's intrusive efforts to draw the Ukraine into its economic hegemony, or even into NATO, exacerbated the division that already exists between that nation's pro-European western sector versus its pro-Russian eastern
sector. It is hardly surprising that
large segments of the Ukrainian people – mainly those in the East who are
members of the conservative Russian Orthodox Church -- are reluctant to be
drawn into the embrace of a degenerate Western Europe. While Putin's Russia at least respects their
conservative religious values – such as the preservation of traditional
Christian marriage -- those same values
would be sharply condemned, if not outlawed outright, in the rigidly secular EU.
It is evident, therefore, that U.S. politicians and media
have grossly oversimplified the complex interests at play in the Ukraine in order
to fit a narrative that portrays Putin as a marauding Sauron waging war
on the free peoples of the West. In reality, it is more a matter of merely reconciling the
interests of the western-oriented and Russian-oriented elements of the Ukraine,
while Russia unsurprisingly insists on protecting its longstanding national interests in the Crimea from falling victim to the turmoil.
In the latest twist to this fiasco, the Crimean
Parliament has voted to join the Russian Federation and scheduled a popular
referendum for Crimean citizens to approve or reject such a move. In what can only be described as an exercise
in astonishing audacity, Obama has responded by stating "The proposed
referendum on the future of Crimea would violate the Ukrainian constitution and
violate international law." This coming from the would-be Paramount Leader who delights in flouting the restraints of
the U.S. Constitution on a regular basis. But it ill behooves Obama to lecture Russia on the application of Ukrainian
constitutional law, when he has blatantly and consistently violated the constitutional
rights of his own people, particularly in the areas of religious freedom and
the separation of powers.
The self-righteous Russo-phobic demagoguery from U.S.
politicians of all stripes on the Ukrainian situation is a dysfunctional
distraction from the more immediate domestic threats to our own constitutional
republic. Especially because actual U.S.
interests in the Ukraine are presently negligible, this is yet another case where George
Washington's wise admonition to "avoid foreign entanglements" fits
like a glove. If and when Russia moves beyond protecting its historic interests in the Crimea and the stability of the Eastern Ukraine it will be soon enough to sound the alarms.
