CNN exclusive: Obama on foreign policy - (Obama believes jihad is a result of U.S. foreign policy)

cnn.com ^ | July 13, 2008

[Free ThinkerNY]

(CNN) -- Sen. Barack Obama discussed his vision for the world in a wide-ranging foreign policy discussion with CNN's Fareed Zakaria.

The Democratic presidential hopeful answered some tough questions about how he would deal with the world's crises, what he would do if Osama bin Laden is caught and his plan for Iraq.

Here are some highlights from the interview, which aired Sunday on "Fareed Zakaria -- GPS."

ZAKARIA: Tell me, what is your first memory of a foreign policy event that shaped you, shaped your life?

OBAMA: A first memory. Well, you know, it wasn't so much an event.

I mean, my first memory was my mother coming to me and saying, "I've remarried this man from Indonesia, and we're moving to Jakarta on the other side of the world."

And that's, I think, my first memory of understanding how big the world was. And then, flying there and landing. This was only maybe a year, or even less than a year, after an enormous coup, the military coup in which we learned later that over half-a-million people had probably died.

[raybbr]

It isn't to say that there is a direct correlation, but what is absolutely true is that there has been a shift in Islam that I believe is connected to the failures of governments and the failures of the West to work with many of these countries, in order to make sure that opportunities are there, that there's bottom-up economic growth.

Oh, not enough money.

He's telling us that he will agree to extortion.

[mkmensinger]

Blame America first...no surprise there.

[appleharvey]

(CNN) -- Sen. Barack Obama discussed his vision for the world in a wide-ranging foreign policy discussion with CNN's Fareed Zakaria

Wow, what an in depth interview that must have been! I hope that Zakaria was wearing his extra thick kneepads. After reading this Muslim puke in Newsweek for years, I'm sure he needed them.

[airborne]

There was jihad before there was an America.

[jackv]

All he needs is a white flag.

[Chgogal]

You beat me to it. That's the quote that struck me the same way.

PINGING Expatguy!!!!

[Jeff Head]

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

[princeofdarkness]

If BHO had been the President during the Barbary Pirate era, he would have apologized to the Sultans and drained the Treasury dry to pay tributes and ransoms to them.

[Ciexyz]

Most interesting.

[Carley]

So Saddam Hussein’s human shredding machines were our fault?

The gassing of the Khurds was our fault?

Sudan, our fault?

Zimbabwe, our fault?

[Travis McGee]

[ryan71]

This guy believes every single word Wright ever spoke.

On several occasions Obama has expressed exactly the same ideas as Wright, Obama just knows how to sneak them in slower.

[Ratblaster]

“I've remarried this man from Indonesia”

Balderdash! Mama ‘Bama never “re”married, because Lolo Soetoro was her first and only husband.

[ryan71]

I thought the addition of an afro for Michelle was interesting...

I think her thesis at Princeton centered on her determination to “stay black”.

So I wonder why she straightens her hair?

[Free ThinkerNY]

[BenLurkin]

"OBAMA: I think the problems of terrorism and groups that are resisting modernity, whether because of their ethnic identities or religious identities, and the fact that they can be driven into extremist ideologies, is one of the severe threats that we face.

"I don't think it's the only threat that we face."

So, who does Barak Hussein Obama mean when he says "we"?

Not Americans, apparently since his battle line is not between the free world and its enemies -- it is between the forces of "modernity" and those who refuse to accept his concept of what "modernity" means.

[BenLurkin]

Obama’s mama was a bit of a slut?

[Interesting Times]

Of course he thinks jihad is America’s fault. Isn’t that what Jeremiah Wright told him every week in “church?”

[FocusNexus]

I think his foreign policy is to talk our enemies to death.

He is so clueless, it’s painful.

Or maybe it isn’t cluelessness, it’s blaming America first for everything that goes wrong in the world. And some people want to elect this anti-American as president of the US?!