{"id":11483,"date":"2013-09-03T17:17:47","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T17:17:47","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-09-03T17:17:47","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T17:17:47","slug":"obama_is_replacing_oil_price_stabilizing_dictators_with_militant_islamist_dictators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/09\/03\/obama_is_replacing_oil_price_stabilizing_dictators_with_militant_islamist_dictators\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama is Replacing Oil Price-Stabilizing Dictators with Militant Islamist Dictators"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: I would not reject the possibility here that Bashar Assad\u2019s being framed. By the way, I\u2019ve got no brief for the guy. He\u2019s not a friend of mine and I\u2019m not particularly interested in this guy maintaining power or what have you. But I\u2019ll tell you, it is clear to me what our foreign policy is in the Middle East. It\u2019s just like Jimmy Carter — we got rid of the Shah. He was a dictator but he was a stabilizing dictator. And, by the way, some of you might say, “Rush, what do you mean we\u2019re supporting dictators and all that?” The world\u2019s a dangerous place. <\/p>\n

But don\u2019t forget this. The left thinks the world is a dangerous place if the US is a lone superpower. Don\u2019t forget Madeleine Albright, former secretary of state for Clinton. She was out there talking about, it\u2019s great when the Soviet Union was a superpower because it kept us in check. The idea that we\u2019re the good guys is not something that these people believe, leftists, American leftists. They think we\u2019re the problem in the world. So they do not trust the United States as a lone superpower. They like a competing superpower to keep us in check. And we, on the other hand, in order for stability to maintain our interests, like one of our interests in the Middle East is obviously the free flow of oil at market prices. All right, that\u2019s our interest, not the people of the Middle East. It\u2019s not our responsibility. <\/p>\n

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Iraq, Bush policy tried to change that, but our number one interest in the Middle East is oil, free flow, market prices. So if stable dictators are the best way to maintain the free flow of oil at market prices, that\u2019s what we\u2019ll do, until the left gets in charge. They start talking about they don\u2019t like dictators, which is croc, they love \u2019em. But they do not think that a policy of free flow of oil at market prices is valid. To them that\u2019s immoral and unjust. Our foreign policy ought to be based on human rights and civil rights and all that nefarious stuff. So they want to get rid of the stabilizing dictators — I\u2019m using this term loosely, and instead ostensibly put people in power that are there the result of a democratic process. <\/p>\n

I give Egypt as an example, Tahrir Square. They hated Mubarak, despised Mubarak because of civil rights violations, human rights violations. Mubarak was good for us. They hated him. They loved the Muslim Brotherhood moving in. Ostensibly they were elected, although they weren\u2019t. So what is happening in the Middle East is that just like Jimmy Carter before him and just like other leftist dingbat presidents before him, Obama is changing the definition of US vital national interests and it\u2019s got nothing to do with oil. Human rights and civil rights, and I don\u2019t mean to impugn those, but they don\u2019t really believe in that, either. Those are just catchphrases designed to emotionally appeal to people, to make them support it. <\/p>\n

The American foreign policy of Barack Obama or Lyndon Johnson is rooted in the belief that the United States is the problem and that another problem is us seeking to secure the free flow of oil at market prices. They don\u2019t like oil. They don\u2019t like oil companies. That\u2019s, to them, unjust and immoral. So get rid of any dictator that facilitates that and instead let the people choose their leaders, which never happens. They just change dictators under the guise of a more human rights friendly dictator, although they won\u2019t even admit that their guys are dictators, but the Muslim Brotherhood is. <\/p>\n

What\u2019s happening now is that Obama is replacing stabilizing dictators, and that term may rub people wrong. That\u2019s why I\u2019m spending some time here trying to define it. US vital national interests in the Middle East is the free flow of oil at market prices. Democrats listening to me right now, I\u2019m telling you, are foaming at the mouth. They\u2019re throwing things at the radio. They\u2019re calling the radio station. They can\u2019t stand it. Free flow of oil at market prices, they hate that. That\u2019s exactly the wrong reason for us to be anywhere in the world \u2019cause they hate oil. Oil is global warming. Oil is profit. Oil is dirt. Oil is pollution. Oil is yuck. So they hate that. But it clearly makes total sense. <\/p>\n

Now, we need not have that vital interest policy if we would simply develop our own oil, Keystone pipeline, fracking, and we could change our vital national interest definition in that region. And Bush did try to. Bush, man of God, George W. Bush really thought that if Iraq would become an American-like democracy, not American-like in terms of founding Constitution, but just direct elections with law-abiding leaders, democratic process. His belief was that people all over the world are the same. They want freedom, self-determination. They don\u2019t want to live under dictatorships. Democracy Project, it was called, and he thought if he could make Iraq work it would show the rest of the Middle East what\u2019s possible. It would cause all the nations, peoples of the Middle East demanding the same thing. <\/line><\/p>\n

It didn\u2019t get enough time to play that out, and there were a lot of American foreign policy experts who thought it was impossible anyway because Middle Eastern people are just not comfortable with self-determination because of Islam. The two don\u2019t go together. You know, those are arguments that continue to take place and be made. The point is here, I know it sounds like I\u2019m diverting from my point, but I\u2019m really not. My point here is is that we\u2019ve got a president from the left who thinks that the United States is the problem in the world, and he thinks that if we\u2019re the problem, any of the relationships that we had with foreign leaders prior to Obama are also unjust, immoral, and dubious. <\/p>\n

So Mubarak had to go. Assad has to go. So they\u2019re getting rid of these dictators, which did stabilize things, it kept the oil flowing basically, because they profited from it. They didn\u2019t treat their people well, but that wasn\u2019t our concern. We can\u2019t be the police force of the world. But Obama\u2019s got a different view. He\u2019s replacing these dictators with militant Islamists, radical Muslim dictators. And this is what Assad sees. <\/p>\n

Assad may be a Muslim, but he\u2019s in the Al-Qaeda camp. Al-Qaeda is fighting him. Al-Qaeda\u2019s on the ground. They constitute the rebels in Syria, and it\u2019s on the table now that they mighta gassed themselves, their own people, to frame Bashar, make it look like he\u2019s doing it for the express purpose of having us come in and take out their opposition, their enemy, Bashar, which it looks like we\u2019re getting ready to do for \u2019em. And you\u2019ve heard some people question, “Why in the world do we want to be on the same side as Al-Qaeda in this?”<\/p>\n

Because Obama looks at guys like Bashar and Mubarak and the Shah of Iran as absolute reprobates, and they\u2019re reprobates because they were US allies under previous administrations. If we\u2019re bad, they\u2019re bad. If we\u2019re the problem in the world, any relationship we had is a problem in the world. Believe me. You know these liberals. They think they\u2019re God\u2019s gift to everything and they\u2019ve got all the answers. <\/p>\n

All they do is make everything they touch worse. I don\u2019t care if it\u2019s domestic, if it\u2019s foreign policy, if it\u2019s economic, everything they touch goes to excrement — and it doesn\u2019t take long. Everything they touch. There\u2019s never been one example in the world of leftists making anything better as they promise. They make it better for themselves, obviously, the leadership. So you tell me: Is it in our interests for the Middle East, other than Israel, to have as leaders…?<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve already got it Turkey. We\u2019ve got a militant radical Islamist running Turkey. It makes sense we want one here? Do we want Hamas and Hezbollah running countries outside of Gaza? That\u2019s where we\u2019re headed, because Obama thinks guys like Mubarak and Assad are reprobates \u2019cause they had previous relationships with previous American presidents, and America is the problem in the world and so we gotta ditch all that.<\/p>\n

So if you want to get rid of Bashar, what better way than make it look like he\u2019s nerve gassing his own people. Now, this Bodansky guy that I quoted in the first hour, this is not by any means the first time that he\u2019s written about this. He wrote extensively about how this very thing was used in Sarajevo that got us into that war on the side of the Bosnian Muslims. He talks about how it\u2019s deception, and it has worked. <\/p>\n

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So this idea that we would be… Well, let\u2019s leave ourselves out of this just a second. That\u2019s something the low-information people will never accept even if it\u2019s true. You could show \u2019em proof and they wouldn\u2019t believe it. Let\u2019s just leave it at Al-Qaeda is using nerve gas on their own people as a setup, as a frame for Bashar to get us to take Bashar out for them. It\u2019s working. I mean, the conventional wisdom in Washington is, “We gotta side with Obama! We gotta go in there and we gotta take Bashar out. We just have to do it!” <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, there are some who will discount this theory or this possibility. “This is crazy, Rush. This is absolute lunacy. No way! This is the kind of kook, conspiracy stuff you find on the Internet, Rush.” Well, now, are we not preparing here, in our own country, for Al-Qaeda to possibly use chemical and biological weapons on us? We are, aren\u2019t we? The Obama administration, Homeland Security department, they conduct exercises involving local and state officials getting ready for this event. <\/p>\n

Why?<\/p>\n

Because we think it\u2019s possible. <\/p>\n

Well, if it\u2019s possible Al-Qaeda would use chemical weapons here, why not there? So I don\u2019t know. I\u2019m troubled by the fact that we\u2019re so eager to sign on board with an ongoing policy here that is replacing… Now, I know. Part of me loves saying that vital American interests are “the free flow of oil at market prices,” \u2019cause that\u2019s like showing Dracula the cross when you say that to a bunch of liberals, particularly if they\u2019re environmentalist wackos. <\/p>\n

They hate the free flow of oil at market prices as a foreign policy. They despise it. They call it “blood for oil.” Blood for ego? That\u2019s another thing. That\u2019s cool. Blood for oil? No way. You look at Kerry and Hillary and Biden and Chuck Hagel and Obama. These guys used to tout Bashar! They used to sing Bashar\u2019s praises, and it wasn\u2019t that long ago that they did. Bashar was a great reformer. Bashar was the future hope, a stabilizing influence in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

So this is wide open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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