In classic Christian political theory, the leader or governor of a state or group of people has the responsibility to defend his people, not to forgive attacks on them (which is not his to do, anyway...) and tell them to lie down and wait for the enemy to overrun them.
But Obama knows that. What nobody wants to admit is that he goes one step further: he’s actually on their side. Why do you think his first televised address after inauguration was to the “Muslim world” and not to the American people? Why did it consist of apologies and the attempt to make it sound as if the US was a Muslim country?
It’s not simply misguided niceness or even leftwing naivete that makes him want to let these people go. It’s hatred of us, the people of the United States, and our political structure, majority religion, and freedom.
A serious MUST READ.
There is a bit of the transcendent in Obama, a man apart from what he shares on the flowing current as though he is a catamaran of a man riding the crests of hope while avoiding the troughs of doubt; this hope of which he often talks, invokes and cries in chorus is not just a campaign slogan it is his personal salvation.
He is the rising tide and, like Neptune he calms the surging seas of dissent while sweeping all obstacles before him to embrace the shivering shores of an imperiled world — a superheroes’ hero.