The history of Islam has plenty of examples of tolerant (by the standards of the day) ruling groups alternating (by war) with fundamentalist ruling groups. We just have a President who encourages the crazies.
Yeah, but you’ve got to ask yourself why he’s so willing to do this. It’s as though he’s projecting the left’s apologetics for the race baiters onto our foreign policy. Domestic policy is supposed to be about getting people to work together peacefully and going in some direction which may or may not fly on the world stage where the rule is competition far more than cooperation. We need these checks and balances, otherwise we will extinct ourselves.