There is a rich history of Democrats blaming America for the state of other countries. Cuba comes to mind. Here is a country that embraced “change” disguised as something it wasn’t and instead found itself dealing with Fidel Castro and his executioner, Che Guevara. Both men had love affairs with Marxism and embraced the Soviet Union.
The communism that has oppressed that nation since has created an island prison that cannot even provide toilet paper to its people.
The left says this is America’s fault.
Apparently not content with blaming America for Cuba, Jim Webb says that we are to blame for Myanmar, aka Burma. According to Webb, our sanctions have lead to bad things in that country:
Webb, who became the first US official to meet the junta’s reclusive leader Than Shwe, voiced concern that Western isolation of Myanmar pushed it into the arms of China, “furthering a dangerous strategic imbalance in the region.”
The United States and European Union have imposed sanctions on Myanmar, earlier known as Burma, due to its refusal to recognize the last elections in 1990 and prolonged detention of the victor, democracy iconAung San Suu Kyi.
“While the political motivations behind this approach are laudable, the result has been overwhelmingly counter-productive,” Webb wrote Wednesday in The New York Times.
“The ruling regime has become more entrenched and at the same time more isolated. The Burmese people have lost access to the outside world,” he said.
Is there a Democrat in America that will not blame America for the state of communist nations around the world? How can we be to blame for Myanmar? Seriously, this is a country that was taken to the woodshed by a typhoon, and then refused to allow volunteers into the country to help. They even refused some of the aid.
But it’s our actions that have been “overwhelmingly counter-productive.”
How productive is it to visit a communist dictatorship like Myanmar, then come home and distribute the position that the dictatorship is behaving the way they do because of America’s actions? Do you think the brutal thugs running Myanmar are laughing at the latest useful idiot to shift the blame from where it belongs to the shining city on the hill?
How can this party be taken seriously when it comes to dealing with the enemies of America when they enable dictators to continue oppressing their people? Between Obama’s apology tour and this latest example of idiocy, I know the perception the world has of America has changed, and not for the better.
