Posted on 06/08/2009 1:52:02 PM PDT by Caleb1411
A few thoughts after the Cairo Address.
I don't know about you, but I am increasingly weary of our national leader trying to win friends and influence enemies by fancy word-work mixed with apologies for America's past sins — real or imaginary. Yes, the presidential speech in Cairo could have been a lot worse. But in the opinion of this veteran of 40 years of Mideast reporting President Obama really stretched it.
Islam has "always been a part of America's story." That's news to me.
And why beat your breast over American involvement in the 1953 overthrow of Iran's Mossadeq regime. If Mr Obama thought he was reaching out a conciliatory hand to the Mullahs of Tehran, he missed it. The mullahs who seized power in 1979 have tried to use Mossadeq now as a martyr. But they always opposed and despised Mossadeq who was a secular nationalist. Nor was his regime "democratically elected". At the time Mossadedeq was overthrown with CIA help, he had autocratically suspended elections and ruled Iran by "emergency decree".
As David Frum put it, "for the United States to apologize to the present Iranian regime for the overthrow of Mossadeq would be a little like President Eisenhower apologizing to Josef Stalin for the murder of Trotsky."
But in my mind, our president erred most unhelpfully in trying to convince the Arab world that "a Jewish homeland" (why not a Jewish "state"?) deserves to exist because of past Jewish suffering in Europe — most specifically the Holocaust.
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Jihad?
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
el hass tee zee.
That is the core problem. It was. It is. and it remains so post-Cairo.
That word doesn’t exist in their language.
Well, there were the Barbary Pirates from near the beginning. Where do you thing "... to the shores of Tripoli" in the Marine's Hymn comes from?
Islam has "always been a part of America's story."
That's news to me.
And its news to everyone ELSE on Planet Earth as well. So just precisely WHERE is this guy from again?
“Kumbaya” is what the black southern Sudanese Christian says while the Arabic northern Sudanese is shouting “Allah Akbar” and cutting the Christian’s throat.
Then the liberals and the Replacement theologians will blame the terrorist incident on the existence of Israel.
Probably the closest thing they have is “death to the infidels”....
Allah u Akbar indeed.
“How do you say ‘kumbaya’ in Arabic?”
And you said — Jihad?
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Ummm..., no... more like Hudna... LOL...
[ A particularly famous early hudna was the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah between Muhammad and the Quraysh tribe. They slaughtered them afterwards...]
He grew up in Indonesia. He is ignorant of American history.
Ok, Hudna, followed by Jihad.
Ilikum somlickin
FUBOYA
I don't know about you, but I am increasingly weary of our national leader trying to win friends and influence enemies by fancy word-work mixed with apologies for America's past sins -- real or imaginary. Yes, the presidential speech in Cairo could have been a lot worse. But in the opinion of this veteran of 40 years of Mideast reporting President Obama really stretched it. Islam has "always been a part of America's story." That's news to me. And why beat your breast over American involvement in the 1953 overthrow of Iran's Mossadeq regime. If Mr Obama thought he was reaching out a conciliatory hand to the Mullahs of Tehran, he missed it. The mullahs who seized power in 1979 have tried to use Mossadeq now as a martyr. But they always opposed and despised Mossadeq who was a secular nationalist. Nor was his regime "democratically elected". At the time Mossadedeq was overthrown with CIA help, he had autocratically suspended elections and ruled Iran by "emergency decree". As David Frum put it, "for the United States to apologize to the present Iranian regime for the overthrow of Mossadeq would be a little like President Eisenhower apologizing to Josef Stalin for the murder of Trotsky."
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