Posted on 03/02/2013 11:17:28 AM PST by machman
In his first inaugural address, Barack Obama announced: "To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect." Improving how the US was perceived among the world's 1.6B Muslims was not about winning an international popularity contest but was deemed as vital to US national security. Even the Pentagon has long recognized that the primary cause of anti-American Terrorism is the "negative attitude" toward the US: obviously, the reason people in that part of the world want to attack the US - as opposed to Peru, South Africa, China - is because they perceive a reason to do so. Obama's most devoted supporters have long hailed his supposedly unique ability to improve America's standing in that part of the world. In his first of what would be many paeans to Obama, Andrew Sullivan wrote back in 2007 that among Obama's countless assets, "first and foremost [is] his face", which would provide "the most effective potential re-branding of the United States since Reagan". Sullivan specifically imagined a "young Pakistani Muslim" seeing Obama as "the new face of America"; instantly, proclaimed Sullivan, "America's soft power has been ratcheted up not a notch, but a logarithm". Obama would be "the crudest but most effective weapon against the demonization of America that fuels Islamist ideology" because it "proves them wrong about what America is in ways no words can". Sullivan made clear why this matters so much: "such a re-branding is not trivial - it's central to an effective war strategy." None of that has happened. In fact, the opposite has taken place: although it seemed impossible to achieve, Obama has presided over an America that, in many respects, is now even more unpopular in the Muslim world than it was under George Bush and Dick Cheney.
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Technically, they hate us because we are not muslim and we don't bow down in their mosque. They won't kill you as long as you do that and hand over everything they tell you to....then they'll still hate you because Islam is a religion of control and authority. There is no such thing as independence within Islam. Islam IS A STATE disquised as a religion.
The west will do well to remember that the Christian church is the cornerstone of Western Civilization. The philosophy and thought process is completely different.
Bump
The Saudi royality love him and that is all that matter$$$.
Just how bad can he get?
For more on Obama see The Obama Clarifier http://obamaclarifier.blogspot.com/
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