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Obama Wants Summit With Muslim Countries
This is what will happen if America makes a left-wing
multiculturalist its president. Barack Obama told a French
magazine that if he is elected, he will hold a summit with
Muslim countries in order to try and improve the United States'
image around the world.
Hmm, this sounds vaguely familiar. Oh yeah, now I remember.
A few months ago he said if he was elected he would have
face-to-face meetings with every deranged, enemy dictator on
the planet, presumably to show how open-minded an
Obama-led America would be and presumably to show that if
you just sit down and talk to your enemies, everything can
easily be straightened out to everyone's liking.
He got hammered by Hillary and others in his own party for
that display of childlike naiveté, after which, in order to show
his toughness, he promised to invade Pakistan should the need
arise.
Can't reasonable people of all stripes and political persuasions
come together and agree that this guy would be a disaster as
commander-in-chief? Actually, no, of course not. That would
be naiveté on my part. The fact is that millions of misguided
Americans agree with Obama that the United States is the
reason for most of the friction that exists between it and the
Middle East, as well as other troublesome areas of the world.
Well, I've got a question for those millions and for Mr. Obama
himself: Given that the Middle East and most of the Islamic
world is a poverty-ridden basket case of ignorance, fanaticism,
squalor, terror fomentation and tribal violence from one end to
the other, why is it America's image that needs repairing? Why
isn't it their image that needs the fix-it job instead, or rather,
their way of life, which creates so many nettlesome problems
for the rest of the world?
But Obama can't be bothered by such technicalities. He just
wants to find "ways to bridge the gap that grows every day
between Muslims and the West. . . . We must also listen to their
concerns."
We already know what their primary concerns are (destroying
the Zionist regime and eventually making the entire world
Islamic) and they don't deserve a serious hearing. Just
yesterday, Iran's madcap President Ahmadinejad called on the
West to acknowledge Israel's "imminent collapse" as he
bragged about Iran's nuclear program going into its final stage.
It shouldn't be too hard to connect those dots.
He's already on record as saying that "the basic problem in the
Islamic world is the existence of the Zionist regime, and the
Islamic world and the region must mobilize to remove this
problem." The guy is the equivalent of a rock star all over the
Islamic world. Why would you want to have a summit with
such psychotics?
But that's what Obama wants and if he's elected that's probably
what we'll get. It would all be in the spirit of tolerance, of
course, but the problem is, the other side has no tradition of
tolerance and only sees anyone else's tolerance as weakness.
In an age of apocalyptic Islamic terrorists itching to get their
paws on weapons of mass destruction, tolerance, which equates
to perceived weakness, is not the course to take.
This is what will happen if America makes a left-wing
multiculturalist its president. Barack Obama told a French
magazine that if he is elected, he will hold a summit with
Muslim countries in order to try and improve the United States'
image around the world.
Hmm, this sounds vaguely familiar. Oh yeah, now I remember.
A few months ago he said if he was elected he would have
face-to-face meetings with every deranged, enemy dictator on
the planet, presumably to show how open-minded an
Obama-led America would be and presumably to show that if
you just sit down and talk to your enemies, everything can
easily be straightened out to everyone's liking.
He got hammered by Hillary and others in his own party for
that display of childlike naiveté, after which, in order to show
his toughness, he promised to invade Pakistan should the need
arise.
Can't reasonable people of all stripes and political persuasions
come together and agree that this guy would be a disaster as
commander-in-chief? Actually, no, of course not. That would
be naiveté on my part. The fact is that millions of misguided
Americans agree with Obama that the United States is the
reason for most of the friction that exists between it and the
Middle East, as well as other troublesome areas of the world.
Well, I've got a question for those millions and for Mr. Obama
himself: Given that the Middle East and most of the Islamic
world is a poverty-ridden basket case of ignorance, fanaticism,
squalor, terror fomentation and tribal violence from one end to
the other, why is it America's image that needs repairing? Why
isn't it their image that needs the fix-it job instead, or rather,
their way of life, which creates so many nettlesome problems
for the rest of the world?
But Obama can't be bothered by such technicalities. He just
wants to find "ways to bridge the gap that grows every day
between Muslims and the West. . . . We must also listen to their
concerns."
We already know what their primary concerns are (destroying
the Zionist regime and eventually making the entire world
Islamic) and they don't deserve a serious hearing. Just
yesterday, Iran's madcap President Ahmadinejad called on the
West to acknowledge Israel's "imminent collapse" as he
bragged about Iran's nuclear program going into its final stage.
It shouldn't be too hard to connect those dots.
He's already on record as saying that "the basic problem in the
Islamic world is the existence of the Zionist regime, and the
Islamic world and the region must mobilize to remove this
problem." The guy is the equivalent of a rock star all over the
Islamic world. Why would you want to have a summit with
such psychotics?
But that's what Obama wants and if he's elected that's probably
what we'll get. It would all be in the spirit of tolerance, of
course, but the problem is, the other side has no tradition of
tolerance and only sees anyone else's tolerance as weakness.
In an age of apocalyptic Islamic terrorists itching to get their
paws on weapons of mass destruction, tolerance, which equates
to perceived weakness, is not the course to take.