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There have been many instances in recent years of Government allowing for the slow decay of American freedoms protected in the US Constitution. We are slowly losing our basic freedom of speech. Our freedom of peaceful assembly and even our freedom of religion is under attack. While this is occurring, the Obama administration seems to care more for the blatantly absurd idea of freedom in nations like Tunisia and Egypt as if our government had some kind of legitimate role in their internal affairs.
Why does our Government including the Obama administration seem to care more the problems in foreign lands then the struggles to maintain our freedoms in our own nation? They are trying to promote free speech in regions that have never possessed it, coexistence between the religions that hasn't existed since Moorish Spain and voting rights in dictatorships while our freedoms are either eroding away or are completely denied in the case of homosexual marriages and our Government either supports the siege of our rights or does nothing to stop it and that would be in cases where the Government itself isn't trying to limit our Constitutional freedoms.
If our Government was free from the influence of businesses and lobbyists then we wouldn't be seeing the new war in Libya or our continuous relationship with Israel. When Obama says we have shared history and values, he must be referring to the similar situations that created both Israel and the US. That would be the concept of foreigners entering another culture's lands and driving those people out to create new nation-states.
The freedoms that we hold in this nation must be our one and only priority for our Government to protect. It is not our responsibility to either establish (by supporting dissidents/militants) or promote freedoms in any foreign nation for any reason. And while millions of Americans are unable to feed themselves adequately, we shouldn't be allowing Egypt to not have to pay one billion dollars in debt to us and we should be cutting off all aid to these nations and ending all our military roles in the region. Our Government should use our tax money to aid our own citizens and to maintain the Republic.
That is our Government's responsibility. It isn't to aid foreign nations or to interfere in their affairs by force and if some would believe that we have "international obligations", then I say we should end our involvement with them.
President Obama obviously thinks it is the right thing but he is wrong. Why does our Government support "freedoms" for foreigners but do little or nothing to protect our freedoms here? Our government must consider our freedoms to be obsolete in a police state.
