Obama the Hypocrite

A week or so ago the web was abuzz about some liberal with nothing better to write about who had, in effect, apologized to the Christian right for the total control of Hollywood and thence the pop culture by liberals.

It was silly and false in many ways, not least because drugs and sex and rock ‘n roll are and always have been more the motto of young, male libertarians than of progressives.

All the same, liberals have insisted almost from 9/12/2001 that the real international challenges to America continue to come from China and Russia despite the end of the Cold War, and certainly not ragamuffin, crackpot Muslim terrorists.

Much less, as others put it, from a worldwide resurgence of Islam, pure and simple.

So completely opposed were they to the replacement of China and Russia by Islamism as America’s globo-enemy that liberals invented a name for a new political sin, “Islamophobia,” to condemn propaganda aimed not only at this but at the forging of a new, post-Cold War alliance pitting the US, Russia, and China, too, against the world-wide forces of Islamism that were attacking all three.

TV along with the rest of pop culture has long since diminished the importance of Islamic terrorists in the roll of our enemies, putting Russia back at the top.

Jack Bauer, macho Muslim-killer of the CTU, the fictional institutional embodiment of the Global War on Terror, has been replaced by Annie Walker of that Cold War dinosaur, the not at all fictional CIA, hotly pursuing Russian FSB bad guys right into their beds.

And last night the wife and I watched a new movie pitting Jason Stathem in New York against both the Chinese mob, connected all the way back to China, and the Russian mob, connected all the way back to Russia.

We have all come a long way since 2001, and even most conservatives have made the climb back down from the furthest and flimsiest ideological limbs of post-9/11, globo-anti-Islamism.

They have returned to join the liberals in the now ideologically baseless post-Cold War globalism that still pits us and NATO against those same old bad guys, the Russians and the Chinese.

Hence Romney’s frank declaration that Russia is our enemy number one.

And hence the hypocrisy of Obama the NATO expander, gladly pushing up against Russia’s nose, “correcting” Romney, saying not the Russians but al-Qaeda are America’s enemy number one.