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Shannyn Moore: Palin's Foreign Policy: "They Lose! We Win!" Obama's: "Peace"
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Obama's message; "The people of the world can live together in peace. We know that is God's vision. Now, that must be our work here on Earth. Thank you. And may God's peace be upon you." ...
Platitudes and naivete: Obama's Cairo speech
Jihad Watch —
... Here is the text as prepared for delivery, provided by the White House, via USA Today, June 4 -- with comments interspersed: ...
One quick comment on the Cairo speech
Yourish.com —
I will have more to say after work, but here’s something to chew on:
The Holy Koran tells us, “O mankind! We have created you male and a female; and we have made you into nations and tribes so that you may know one another.”
The Talmud tells us: “The whole of the Torah is for the purpose of promoting peace.”
The Holy Bible tells us, “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.”
The people of the world can live together in peace. We know that is God’s vision. Now, ...
This Is What Diplomacy Looks Like
Wonk Room —
... It’s doubtful that Barack Obama has ever delivered a speech as hotly awaited as the one he gave today in Cairo. I had hoped but not expected that, having already generated some credibility on the issue with his firm stance against Israeli settlements, the president would use the opportunity to address the cynical exploitation of the conflict by Arab regimes. I was pleasantly surprised, then, to hear the president tell the Arab States they “must recognize that the Arab Peace Initiative was an important beginning, but not the end of their responsibilities.” ...
The Obama Apologist Speech to Islam & Al-Azhar; CAIR and Faux-Conservative Ignoramus Loved the Speech
Debbie Schlussel —
... So, I've read the entire, way too long Obama apologist speech to Islam made in Cairo earlier today. The whole thing is, as you've heard, a disgusting, unfactual, incorrect hour of verbal fertilizer. ...
Platitudes and naivete: Obama’s Cairo speech
Israpundit —
by Robert Spencer, Jihad Watch, June 4, 2009
Here is the text as prepared for delivery, provided by the White House, via USA Today, June 4 — with my comments interspersed:
I am honored to be in the timeless city of Cairo, and to be hosted by two remarkable institutions. For over a thousand years, Al-Azhar has stood as a beacon of Islamic learning,
…whose Grand Sheikh, Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi, has given his approval — on Islamic grounds — to suicide bombing.
and for over a century, Cairo University has been a ...
Obama the Counter-Insurgent
democracyarsenal.org —
... I've been thinking quite a bit about President Obama's speech in Cairo speech andI keep coming back to the notion that Obama's words were perhaps the most effective actions taken by a US President against the global Al Qaeda movement since the Fall of 2001. If you subscribe to the notion that the war with Al Qaeda is a global counter-insurgency then Obama dealt his enemy a difficult blow. ...
Dhimmitude on display
Yourish.com —
... The Jews of Iran are an endangered species, just as the Jews of the Arab world are pretty much gone from those nations. Yemen is currently the best examples of how Muslims treat The People of the Book. For more examples of that, go look for Christians in Saudi Arabia. You won’t find any publicly practicing their religion, because that’s illegal. Filipinos are regularly arrested for holding private worship services in their homes. Obama has an interesting take on this lack of tolerance. ...
Douglas Feith on Obama's Cairo Speech
The Corner on National Review Online —
Thursday, June 11, 2009 [image] Douglas Feith on Obama's Cairo Speech [ Mario Loyola ] Former und ersecretary of defense for policy Douglas Feith has a thought-provoking op-ed on Obama s Cairo speech up at the Washington Times . Feith focuses on Obama s overuse of the word must as in, Hamas must put an end to violence. The word appears more than 30 times in the speech. The problem with must is that it kills analysis, says Feith. A good policy discussion brings forward a sensible set of goals and well-considered assumptions and then weighs the ...
Israelis to Obama: You are not on our side
Yourish.com —
... is still in captivity. Perhaps it’s the knowledge that the Obama team is trying to bring down Netanyahu’s government and replace it with one that will be more willing to kowtow to The One. Or perhaps Israelis just watched the speech, as I did, and noticed that every time he mentioned what the Palestinians had to do, he was gently lecturing, sort of like a father having a serious discussion with his children. And when he came to the Israeli responsibilities, the axe fell. Compare and contrast: ...
The Exception Clause and Hillary’s speech
Yourish.com —
... for Israel” to the end of this excerpt, and you will see what I mean.
We’ve also begun to adopt a more flexible and pragmatic posture with our partners. We won’t agree on every issue. Standing firm on our principles shouldn’t prevent us from working together where we can. So we will not tell our partners to take it or leave it, nor will we insist that they’re either with us or against us.
It’s a fabrication. Because in Cairo, Obama did exactly that:
The United States does not accept the legitimacy of ...
