If any evidence were needed to demonstrate precisely how warped US President Barack Obama's priorities really are, it was found today at the United Nations.
With three countries -- Canada, Germany, and Portugal -- vying for a rotating seat on the UN Security Council, one would imagine that someone with a direct stake in whomever occupies that seat would take enough interest to listen to the speeches delivered by each country before the General Assembly.
As a permanent member of the Security council, the United States had such a stake. But where was President Obama while Prime Minister Stephen Harper was delivering his speech?
At lunch, with much of the rest of the General Assembly.
Obama would return for, of all things, a speech by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Ahmaedinejad took his moment in the sun before the US President to peddle 9/11 "truth" theories, which prompted much of the General Assembly to walk out.
“Some segments within the U.S. government orchestrated the attack to reverse the declining American economy, and its grips on the Middle East, in order to save the Zionist regime,” Ahmadinejad announced.
At which point the US delegation walked out.
One delegation that didn't walk out was the Canadian delegation. Canada had the decency to boycott Ahmadinejad's speech.
If anything underscores the warped priorities of Obama's diplomatic agenda, it's unquestionably this.
The US delegation fails to show up to hear Harper's speech, and instead takes a lunch break that they should have scheduled while Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was at the podium spewing his 9/11 "truth" conspiracy theories.
With friends like Barack Obama, who needs Iran?
Exactly they staged their walkout after he started his anti-US speech.
ReplyDeleteMany countries have learned to skip the Iranian leader, why has the US failed to make that decision?
Obama is apparently more interested in being diplomatically-engaged with his countries enemies than with its allies.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I hope the next time Obama's government needs Canada's help with something, the American people need it too. If it's only the government needing support, I think Canada should make a point of not being there for him.