A rightwing Republican congressman from Iowa has complained that President Obama operates in lockstep with the very conservative Muslim Brotherhood in the Middle East.
Rep. Steve King said Obama’s foreign policy has been a disaster that will be difficult for the next president to fix in 2017.
“There is no country in the world where we have a better relationship now than when he took office,” King said in an interview with the Globe Gazette in Iowa.
“He has marginalized Israel and the agreement he wants with Iran does nothing more than hand over the problems with nuclear weapons to the next president.
“If you look at his record in foreign policy, he has been on the side of the Muslim Brotherhood every step of the way,” said King. The Muslim Brotherhood is reviled and detested by almost every government in the Arab world except for Qatar’s. It is widely suppressed. It has only held power in Egypt and then only briefly under since-ousted President Mohamed Morsi.
King has been a vocal opponent of Obama on many domestic issues as well. He is against same-sex marriage, opposes lenient treatment of illegal aliens, denounces any form of gun control and is the author of bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
Asked whether he agreed with former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s assessment that Obama does not love America, King said it would be hard to dispute Giuliani if the president was to be judged solely on his actions and policies.
“It’s hard to understand,” said King. “Things that seem utterly clear to a lot of us are a mystery to the White House.”
Last spring, at the Gridiron Banquet, an annual Washington event of levity and joke-telling, Obama noted he had been accused of not loving America. He said that was false. The president said, “After all, if I didn’t love America, would I have moved here from Kenya?”