Posted on 09/15/2012 5:03:16 PM PDT by mandaladon
According to Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer, the short anti-Muhammad video supposedly made by filmmaker Sam Bacile isn’t the primary cause of the ongoing violence and anti-American unrest in the Middle East.
In an appearance on Friday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel, Krauthammer downplayed White House spokesman Jay Carney’s insistence that the video is at fault for the turmoil. Instead, he blamed America’s weak policy posture.
“[Saying that] this has nothing to do with us or our policies, [that] it’s about a video, is either willfully obtuse or simply clueless,” Krauthammer said. “What has happened is, as you pointed out, beginning with the Cairo speech, Obama changed American policy on the theory that the reason that people hated us was because we were tough. They hated us because of Iraq. They hated us because of Guantanamo. They hated us because of the torture — he used the word, he accuses his own country abroad of torturing.”
“And he was now apologizing and promising to change course,” he continued. “We would no longer be tough. We would be loved. We would show compassion. And we would get out of Iraq. He set a deadline for Afghanistan. He doesn’t support the Green Revolution in Iran. He shows the Ayatollahs tremendous respect. He essentially protects them when they are under attack. He gets nowhere on the Iran nuclear issue. He is equivocal uncertain during the Arab Spring. He leads from behind in Libya. The theory was if we go soft, if we are very nice, if we say ‘Assalamu alaikum,’ enough times, everything will be all right. And what he decided is, the way to do that, the theory and therefore the practice is going to be, retreat and withdraw. Remember the line he uses? The tide of war is receding.”
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The Hammer is right this time (he’s right most of the time) —Time for America to be Great again! Obama must be dumped and dumped fast. Watch the debates—the MSM will show their hand. I believe that if Obama wins—he will lose the American People and suffer a terrible Nixon like second term that will end in his forced out of office. If Romney wins, and I thinks its an 80% chance of this, he will be hounded by the Media as a new Dan Quale and a fool—These games will not work in a nation at war.
“Proving just the opposite of what your point is.”
No, you missed my point entirely.
Yep, you’re probably right...
I smell WWIII some days...and we don’t have any Pattons in the wings.
No. I have your point precisely.
Here are your words:
“The USA now has more military bases overseas than the Roman Empire...
Unfortunately, along the way toward good things, we’ve militarized the world - largely on borrowed money. It can’t go on forever.”
We haven’t militarized the world, we have stabilized the world. We are not the Roman Empire or an empire, we have not taken a damn thing.
Sorry Charlie, you still got it wrong.
I either got it correct, or you need to take a “communication and writing effectively” class.
So, you’re denying your own words now?
Ok, since I used the common meaning of those words, you can decipher your words and expose your point.
Happy to elaborate - and equally happy for you to have a different opinion - just please don’t change mine.
Empire: “Imperial or imperialistic sovereignty, domination or control.”
... so to restate and elaborate my point for clarity
Through (largely) borrowed money, the USA has (militarily and now through FATCA) placed itself in a position of imperialistic domination and control over the world. Because of the cost, this cannot continue. It is too far flung to sustain and the world is running out of money that is willing to lend the USA.
Best to you
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