Obama’s Terrorist Engagement Strategy
Buried in Peter Baker’s article for the New York Times magazine, “Inside Obama’s War on Terrorism” are a few revealing nuggets about the President’s approach to, dare I say, the GWOT.
First, despite Baker’s title, the President doesn’t believe in a war on terrorism:
“Rather than seeing terrorism as the challenge of our time, Obama rejects the [...]
Pamela Geller: ‘Obama’s State Department Submits To Islam’
Pamela Geller reports on the latest disgusting, stomach-turning, act of submission to Islam by Barack Obama’s State Department:
Perhaps this is an initiative of President Barack Obama’s newly created Office for Outreach to the Ummah at State. In June Obama had the Secretary-General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, at the White House. [...]
Blame the Palestinians
An excellent op-ed in the Australian that pins the blame for continued failed peace efforts between Israel and the Palestinians squarely on where it belongs - the Palestinians: Give peace a chance (Denying Israel’s right to exist is no basis for a settlement):
[...] The Palestinian Authority says Mr Netanyahu’s speech “torpedoed” peace initiatives. This [...]
Wafa Sultan’s Middle East readers: "Who should we believe, Obama or you?"
Wafa Sultan (via Hudson New York) responds to her Middle Eastern Arab readers reacting with bewilderment to Obama’s Cairo speech who ask her, “Who should we believe, Obama or you?” - ‒ in particular his statement that “America and Islam overlap and share common principles, the principles of justice, tolerance and dignity for human beings”:
True, [...]
David Frum Analzyes Obama’s Cairo Speech
As Hugh Hewitt notes, excellent work by David Frum. He’s very wrong about Rush, but very right about this speech:
President Obama likes to position himself as an intermediary, explaining two conflicting parties each to the other. He did so in his race speech in Philadelphia, he did so when he spoke about abortion at Notre [...]
Reviews of Obama’s speech in Cairo
Michelle Malkin and Ed Morrissey have both weighed in with very different takes (HT - Sister Toldyah). I took the time this morning to watch the speech and came away with a take that more or less sits in between Michelle’s “Rainbows and unicorns” analogy and Ed’s take that it was generally a good speech [...]
