The exchange I'd like to see:
"We do not respect your son. We do not respect what he's doing all over the world," a woman in the audience bluntly told Bush after his speech.
To which President Bush replied, "Use a little mouthwash, will ya!"
Interesting that they put up a woman to do this. Personally, I don't care if they respect Bush or not. They certainly would respect a JDAM or a MOAB or daisy cutter!
Hope hangin' around with clintoon didn't tarnish the elder Bush's image.
Good! Next Poppy needs to stop hanging out with the Impeached One.
Fighting islama-whackos and terrorism all over the world? How dare he?
I'm sure they don't like what "he's doing." He's taking the fight to al Qaeda and generally making life hard for Islamists terrorists. Under this President, life in al Qaeda is short with a brutal ending. Still, watch the attitude change in the Gulf States when they need someone to protect them from the mad mullahs in Iran.
from the article:
"A college student told Bush his belief that U.S. wars were aimed at opening markets for American companies and said globalization was contrived for America's benefit...."
If you are inclined to hate America, that viewpoint is understandable......OTOH, if you love America, "globalization" can be viewed as contrived for the detriment and liquidation of America.
"He is working hard for peace. It takes a lot of guts to get up and tell a father about his son in those terms when I just told you the thing that matters in my heart is my family," he said. "How come everybody wants to come to the United States if the United States is so bad?"
Now there is a quote worth reporting.
I'm not an expert in Arab culture, but these were extreme insults directed at a father about his son.
The kind that gets your camels and goats killed during the night.
There is a lot of "projecting" going on out there. We are a relatively wealthy country precisely because we value some things above money. We aren't motivated only by money, in part because we have it, and we have it in part because we are not motivated by money alone.
This lady's comment does show a lot of what we are up against. We are taking the fight to Al Qaeda, but the fact is that many people are sympathetic to Al Qaeda, a good part of the Western press is sympathetic to them, and probably most of the arab press is sympathetic to arab radicalism.
Thats not our fault, its the reality we face. It is our fault if, knowing that, we don't take steps to deal with it. One way to deal with it is obviously to hang tough, which Bush is good at and so are we. But it isn't enough, we have get control of the culture war, the information war, or we will lose the military and political war.