What Obama Should’ve Responded at the Organization of American States [oas]

Obama took a worldwide apology tour. Part of it was his Latin America tour. On April 2009, at the Organization of American States [OAS], he just sat there while Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega just ranted against America. Ortega accused America of “terroristic aggression in Central America”. He bashed America and its policy in Central America. He attacked America for supporting the Somoza regime and for the “illegal” war against the Sandinistas where the US backed the Contra freedom fighters. Ortega said:

Nicaragua central America, we haven’t been shaken since the past century by what have been the expansionist policies, war policies, that even led us in the 1850s, 1855, 1856 to bring Central American people together. We united, with Costa Ricans, with people from Honduras, the people from Guatemala, El Salvador. We all got together, united so we could defeat the expansionist policy of the United States. And after that, after interventions that extended since 1912, all the way up to 1932 and that left, as a result the imposition of that tyranny of the Samozas. Armed, funded, defended by the American leaders.

And Ortega denounced America’s policy toward Cuba and had a pro-Castro rant. He presents the Communist regime in Cuba as an innocent victim of the US and as a regime that seeks independence. He bashed America for the Bay of Pigs “invasion” where Cuban freedom fighters sought to free their country from Castro’s tyranny. Obama just sat there. He did not stand up for America. Instead, he said,”To move forward, we cannot let ourselves be prisoners of past disagreements. I’m grateful that President Ortega did not blame me for things that happened when I was three months old. Too often, an opportunity to build a fresh partnership of the Americas has been undermined by stale debates. We’ve all heard these arguments before.”

Aww, isn’t that nice? So it’s okay for Ortega to bash America, just so long as he doesn’t blame Obama? Heard of the phrase ,”as long as they say my name”? It means that as long as you get attention, it doesn’t matter if it’s positive or negative attention. Well, in this case, to Obama, it’s “as long as they don’t say my name”. Obama probably believes at least a lot of this stuff. His former pastor Jeremiah Wright says the same kind of garbage. Obama formed close ties with anti-American radicals including Bill Ayres who holds the same kind of views of America being an evil expansionist nation. Obama sat in Wright’s pews for a few decades. Obama’s book “Audacity of Hope” is based on one of Wright’s sermons. To Obama, listening to Ortega slam this great nation America is like listening to Wright.

What Obama should’ve responded?

Instead of just listening to it, Obama should’ve responded. He should’ve pointed out that America brought freedom and liberty around the world including Latin America. Thanks to America, most Latin American countries are democracies. Before, they were just dictatorships and oligarchies.

Obama should’ve challenged Ortega to “name one democratic leader who is an enemy of America”. Around the world, when we find enemies of America, we find that they’re all brutal dictators. Obama should’ve stated that America’s mistake was to abandon the Cuban freedom fighters during the Bay of Pigs. That’s what saved Castro’s tyranny. Had the Bay of Pigs fighters won, Cuba would’ve been a democracy instead of continuing to be under Communist tyranny. That’s what Obama should’ve mentioned. Obama should’ve mentioned that Cuba is no innocent victim and that the Castro brothers have a crappy human rights violation.

Obama should’ve mentioned the barbaric executions at La Cabana where good old Che Guevara had fun executing his victims. Those victims were innocent men, women and children who got no trial. Some of them got sham tribunals where the verdict was decided. 

Obama should’ve also mentioned the labor camps for anyone the Communist regime doesn’t like and talk about the fact that opponents of the Communist regime in Cuba are tortured and/or killed by the Communist regime.

Obama should’ve said, “Ortega, how can you explain the fact that the Jews in your country don’t trust your movement? How can you explain that you are unpopular among the Jewish community there. I’ll tell you why. Because you were persecuting them and had a militant anti-Israel policy”. He should’ve said,”You Ortega are guilty of genocide against Indian populations”.

But no. Instead of pointing out those facts, as well as facts that when the Sandinistas ruled Nicaragua from 1979-1990, it was a Communist dictatorship that was backed by the Soviet Union. He should’ve mentioned the fact that under the Sandinistas, Nicaragua was a Soviet client state and supported Communist terror groups. He should’ve mentioned that Sandinista Nicarauga was close to the PLO [Palestine Liberation Organization], which was [and is] guilty of terrorism all over the world and which had [and has] a goal to eliminate a small democracy [Israel].

Obama should’ve mentioned that Sandinista Nicaragua formed alliances with Khomeinist Iran and Qaddaffi’s Libya.

Obama should’ve pointed out that the Contras sought to free Nicaragua from Sandinists tyranny and that the Contras implemented democracy and that Nicaragua was a democracy from 1990 until Ortega came back to power through an election. Obama should’ve mentioned that Ortega seeks to reestablish his dictatorship. The Economist documented undemocratic policies imposed by Ortega’s Sandinista regime.

Obama should’ve mentioned that Ortega called his 1979 Sandinista revolution and Iran’s 1979 revolution “twin revolutions…since both revolutions are about justice, liberty, self-determination, and the struggle against imperialism”.

Obama should’ve mentioned that now, Ortega’s Nicaragua has an anti-American alliance with Castro’s Cuba, Chavez’s Venezuela and Morales’s Bolivia.

If Obama called Ortega a hypocrite, I would’ve applauded. Obama should’ve said,”It is you who is truly guilty of terroristic agression, not us”.

But no, Obama didn’t say any of this stuff. He didn’t bring up any of these facts. Instead, he was just thankful that Ortega didn’t mention Obama’s name. Instead, Obama just sat silent and didn’t stick up for America. He shook Hugo Chavez’s hand and took his anti-American book. Whether Obama was right to do that with Chavez or not, he could’ve at least stood up for America. He could’ve pointed out the Caracus nine, nine victims of Chavez’s state terrorism and could’ve mentioned documentation brought up by the Human Rights Foundation [HRF]. But no. Obama remained silent to these outrageous libelous accusations against America. He probably agrees with at least a lot of these accusations. Anti-American dictators see America as getting weaker and may be laughing it up. My message to Obama is simple:

You keep your change. We keep our country.