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Jewish World Review Sept. 26, 2013/ 22 Tishrei, 5774 The president's U.N. speech By Cal Thomas
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President Obama's speech to the His claim that "The world is more stable than it was five years ago" is demonstrably false. In The president seemed to take at face value a "fatwa," or religious edict, issued by There are reportedly a half-dozen nuclear sites in Breaking news for the president: Our enemies lie by telling us what we want to hear while behaving duplicitously. The president barely mentioned the slaughter of 85 Pakistani Christians over the weekend. He didn't mention at all the Muslim war against Coptic Christians in
The president again dredged up the conflict between President Obama seemed to again blame America for Muslim "hostility" because of U.S. involvement "in the Muslim world." U.S. motivation for such involvement has been two-fold: strike at terrorists and reduce the threat they pose to the U.S. and its interests, and free people from political and religious oppression. One can debate whether those goals were sufficient to prompt U.S. "involvement," but there can be no debate that America's objectives were altruistic and rooted in self-preservation.
As an example of how political and religious differences can be resolved, the president again pointed to The president said America has been humbled by its foreign adventures. Humility and retreat are not a policy, unless we plan to surrender to Islamists. He didn't articulate America's foreign policy, because he doesn't have one. Islamic fundamentalists can only be encouraged by this speech. They include The last line of the president's U.N. speech may have been the most fantastical of all: "...we remain convinced that this community of nations can deliver a more peaceful, prosperous and just world to the next generation." There is no "community of nations." There are individual nations with individual interests. If
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JWR contributor Cal Thomas is co-author with Bob Beckel, a liberal Democratic Party strategist, of "Common Ground: How to Stop the Partisan War That is Destroying America". Comment by clicking here.
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