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Charles Krauthammer sets the record straight on US/Muslim relations
Sister Toldjah —
... Columnist Charles Krauthammer has done what Obama’s speechwriters and researchers apparently have not - examined the record of relations between our country and the Muslim world over the last 20 years, and the facts he presents pretty much decimate President Obama’s contrary arguments. Here are some highlights: ...
Shorter Charles Krauthammer
pandagon.net - we are the public option —
... It would have been perfectly okay if Obama’s Muslim ass would have declared his love for his Muslim brethren, but the rest of us don’t need him to speak for us. It’s not like anyone elected the presumptuous motherfucker. ...
Krauthammer: Obama Distorts America's Stance on Muslims
Little Green Footballs —
... Charles Krauthammer gets it exactly right in today’s column, on Barack Obama’s embarrassing interview with Al Arabiya: Obama Distorts America’s Stance on Muslims. ...
Telling it straight: Must reads
The Anchoress —
Charles Krauthammer gets it exactly right in this piece:
In these most recent 20 years — the alleged winter of our disrespect of the Islamic world — America did not just respect Muslims, it bled for them. It engaged in five military campaigns, every one of which involved — and resulted in — the liberation of a Muslim people: Bosnia, Kosovo, Kuwait, Afghanistan and Iraq.
The two Balkan interventions — as well as the failed 1992-93 Somalia intervention to feed starving African Muslims (43 Americans were ...
On Apologies
Neptunus Lex —
The President gave his first interview to al Arabiya last week, taking the opportunity to tell the Arab world that America is not their enemy, and that it was time build “the same respect and partnership that America had with the Muslim world as recently as 20 or 30 years ago, there’s no reason why we can’t restore that.”
Charles Krauthammer worries that this formulation is needlessly apologetic:
In these most recent 20 years — the alleged winter of our disrespect of the Islamic world — America did ...
Ingrates
Daimnation! —
Charles Krauthammer points out the inconvenient facts:
Every new president flatters himself that he, kinder and gentler, is beginning the world anew. Yet, when Barack Obama in his inaugural address reached out to Muslims by saying "to the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect," his formulation was needlessly defensive and apologetic.
Is it "new" to acknowledge Muslim interests and show respect to the Muslim world? Obama doesn't just think so, he said so again to millions in his al-Arabiya interview, insisting ...
Krauthammer Rips Obama's Description of our Relations with Muslims
Hyscience —
... need to "restore" the "same respect and partnership that America had with the Muslim world as recently as 20 or 30 years ago."
Astonishing. In these most recent 20 years -- the alleged winter of our disrespect of the Islamic world -- America did not just respect Muslims, it bled for them. It engaged in five military campaigns, every one of which involved -- and resulted in -- the liberation of a Muslim people: Bosnia, Kosovo, Kuwait, Afghanistan and Iraq.Continue reading....
As Krauthammer goes on to point out in his piece, it is ...
Happy Hour Links
Weekly Standard Blog —
... Charles Krauthammer: "it is both false and deeply injurious to this country to draw a historical line dividing America under Obama from a benighted past when Islam was supposedly disrespected and demonized." ...
Larwyn's Link Kerplosion: "Billions on welfare, not a cent for defense"
Doug Ross @ Journal —
... Hot Air Britain awakens : Ace o' Spades Change! Obama sends $20 Million to Hamas : JWF Voter Identification Laws Were a Success in November : WSJ Geithner as good as his job as he is at taxes : Hot Air Surprise! Daschle a tax cheat : JWF EU: "We are on the road to serious social instability" : London Times It takes a proverb to run a village : Iowahawk 1.3 million crippled by strange, translucent global warming : Yahoo! Krauthammer Drives over Obama's Inane Arguments, Then Backs Truck Up And Does It Again : ...
Obama’s pathetic message to Muslims
Israpundit —
By Ted Belman
What follows is two great articles that illustrate how pathetic and misguided Obama’s message was.
Charles Krauthammer says Outreach, Yes. Apology, No. We’ve Never Been Islam’s Enemy
[..] As in Obama’s grand admonition: “We cannot paint with a broad brush a faith as a consequence of the violence that is done in that faith’s name.” Have “we” been doing that, smearing Islam because of a small minority? George W. Bush went to the Islamic Center in Washington six days after ...
The History of “Mutual Respect”
Flopping Aces —
“to the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect,”- President Obama in his first television interview, on al-Arabiya.
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Charles Krauthammer (hat tip: Brutally Honest):
Is it “new” to acknowledge Muslim interests and show respect to the Muslim world? Obama doesn’t just think so, he said so again to millions in his al-Arabiya ...
A word on Obama’s interview with Al Arabiya
Sister Toldjah —
... regarding past presidents meeting face to face with the enemy). The comments he made in the interview with Al Arabiya as it relates to the alleged ‘good relationship’ we supposedly used to have with the Muslim world 20 and 30 years ago (Krauthammer touched on this at length yesterday, which I noted in my prior post about this) remain mystifying. I’m still waiting for SOMEONE in the American press to question him on exactly what he was talking about: The bombing of the Marine barracks in Lebanon, or the Iran hostage crisis? ...
