10-07-2013, 01:07 AM
http://lookingglass.blog.co.uk/2013/07/0...-16217260/
It's probably been true for a hundred years, but in Europe and Africa it may never have been more true than now, that other nations fear America and their leaders jump when an American President tells them to.
Couple of years ago, a journalist in a Yemeni jail for writing commentary considered insulting to the undemocratic regime which runs the country, was about to be released when their President got a phone call from Barack Obama instructing him to keep the man in prison. He's still there. Apparently, the U.S. leader likes to keep his hands in.
There is little doubt that the aircraft carrying Bolivian head of state, Evo Morales, was denied airspace over France, Italy, Spain, and Portugal, endangering the lives of everyone on board, because Obama insisted on it. No other construction makes any sense. No other nation has a motive. No other nation is run by such an arrogant, vengeful executive, certainly not one with this kind of power.
It's probably been true for a hundred years, but in Europe and Africa it may never have been more true than now, that other nations fear America and their leaders jump when an American President tells them to.
Couple of years ago, a journalist in a Yemeni jail for writing commentary considered insulting to the undemocratic regime which runs the country, was about to be released when their President got a phone call from Barack Obama instructing him to keep the man in prison. He's still there. Apparently, the U.S. leader likes to keep his hands in.
There is little doubt that the aircraft carrying Bolivian head of state, Evo Morales, was denied airspace over France, Italy, Spain, and Portugal, endangering the lives of everyone on board, because Obama insisted on it. No other construction makes any sense. No other nation has a motive. No other nation is run by such an arrogant, vengeful executive, certainly not one with this kind of power.