"This is really all about showing that America needs to be humbled. And that dictators must be shown respect and reverence."
Specific to the second half of that statement from above, history shows that 'enlightened liberals' (sic) genuinely admire tyrants. Stalin, Mao, Castro, Ho Chi Min, the list goes on and on. I genuinely believe that Obama has that strain of thinking, and he almost certainly covets that sense of worship from similar such minions.
This is hitting my brain right now, a comment once made by Vaclev Havel (sp?), the first leader of a free Czechoslovakia after the fall of the Iron Curtain. When asked how it felt to have 40% of the population vote against his reelection at PM or President (or whatever the title), Havel instantly said something to the effect of, 'That's better than 100%, like it used to be around here'.
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