What...?

Okay, I know that there is really nothing any president could do about the disaster in Japan. Earthquakes, tidal waves, and nuclear meltdowns are out of anyone's control.

But there is an element of decorum and human decency that requires the most powerful man in the free world to stop what he's doing and address a real human crisis. Why can't President Obama focus some of his attention on Japan?

And he really could do a lot to mobilize relief efforts in the wake of the disaster. He is supposed to be a leader in the world; a man among men. Surely he could use the influence of the Presidency to get other countries in the region to help out.

Perhaps, you say, he's tied up in talks with the Saudis about their sending 1,000 soldiers into Bahrain. Or is he in a secret strategy session with President Sarkozy planning to gain air superiority in Libya? Maybe he is talking with General Petraeus, who is in Washington for the first time in 9 months, about our progress in Afghanistan. He could be meeting with governors of states bordering Mexico to plan how the federal government can provide better security against increasingly brazen drug gangs. What about finally sitting down to make a plan to deal with the ongoing catastrophe of Haiti? Hell, he could even be reviewing a report on the current ecological state of the Gulf of Mexico following the Deepwater Horizon disaster last year!

The absolutely pathetic thing is that he is concerned with none of this. He is working with ESPN today. He's taping his picks for the NCAA basketball championship series. They'll be broadcast tomorrow.

Once again, President Obama and his administration succeed in demonstrating how completely inept they are and how out of tune with the demands of leadership this president is. How can they wonder why people don't feel confident or comfortable with his abilities?

But think about it further. His action - or inaction - is not so nonsensical.

A few months ago I talked about a book written by Dinesh D'Souza called "The Roots of Obama's Rage". In it D'Souza concludes that Barack Obama is motivated - even animated - by his father's anti-colonial views. Look at the president's level of concern with Japan's well being.

Zero.

But this makes sense if you look at Japan. They have an Emperor. They were a military imperial force in the early and mid-20th century. In fact, Japan dominated Indonesia - Barack Obama's childhood home - for most of the Second World War. He would naturally harbor some deep-seated anti-Japanese sentiment.

In his mind, Japan may just be getting their comeuppance. Just as he tacitly agreed with Jeremiah Wright, that 9/11 was "America's chickens coming home to roost", he may feel the same; Nature, offended by Japan's audacity in seeking to commit imperial rape on its neighbors nearly a century ago, is now wreaking vengeance.