Posted on 06/17/2016 2:57:55 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
As far as the White House is concerned, Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic's top reporter, is President Barack Obama's unofficial mouthpiece. This was one of the many things we learned from The New York Times in David Samuels's profile of Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes. In the course of explaining how Rhodes was able to sell Obama's nuclear deal with Iran, despite the fact that it cleared Iran's path to a nuclear arsenal while giving the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism more than a hundred billion dollars, Samuels reported that "handpicked Beltway insiders like Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic... helped retail the administration's narrative."
Given his White House-assigned role, Goldberg's explanation of Obama’s refusal to discuss radical Islam is worthwhile reading. It reflects what Obama wants the public to believe about his position. On Wednesday Goldberg wrote that in Obama's view, discussing radical Islam is counterproductive because it harms the moderates who need to stand up to the radicals.
"Obama," he wrote, "believes that [a] clash is taking place [not between Western and Muslim civilization but] within a single civilization, and that Americans are sometimes collateral damage in this fight between Muslim modernizers and Muslim fundamentalists." Pointing out that there are Muslim fundamentalists, Obama has argued to Goldberg, will only strengthen them against the modernizers.
Over the past week, prominent conservative commentators have agreed with Obama’s position. Eli Lake from Bloomberg and Prof. John Yoo writing in National Review, among others, criticized presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump for speaking openly radical Islam. Like Goldberg, they argued that Trump's outspokenness alienates moderate Muslims. But what moderate Muslims is Obama trying to help? Consider his treatment of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi...
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1 John 2:22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is* the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.
This is a superb article. Every freeper should read it. I was aware of most of what is in this article, but the article put it all together in a clear, consistent well sourced message.
Wonderful article!
T R E A S O N ! !
I believe Obama may be a closet Shiite. He has discarded and toppled several Sunni regimes and helped out Iran.
Very possible! They are stronger believers in the Mahdi...perhaps he fashions himself as the BIG M?
Very nicely played
It’s not PC, but at this point we have little choice but to assume all Muslims are terrorists.
And we all know how to handle terrorists...
Moderate muslims were the ones who knew Mateen was going to attack the nightclub and just kept their mouths shut.
Because moderate muslims are okay with Assault Muslims on the attack. We need a ban on Assault Muslims - register them, lock them up, ban them. But the moderate muslims will attempt to block a ban. Today's moderate muslims are tomorrow's assault muslims.
Radical Muslims want to kill you. Moderate Muslims just want to watch. :-)
The terrorists here are assaulting us, so let's call them Assault Muslims. Then let's push for a ban on Assault Muslims. 99 percent of gun owners here are not doing mass killings, so it isn't the guns at fault. However, most of the mass killings are being done by Assault Muslims. Time to take out the garbage.
Assault Muslim ban works for me.
I like it. I like it a lot. I would add this:
I love quoting other FReepers. It adds to my delusion that I am really important.
Mohammedism is a cult of hate started by a camel-humping pedophile. Islam is a Mohammedan word; don’t use their words. -FReeper NTHockey
So I would call them Assault Mohammedans.
Moreover, Sisi has put his anti-jihadist belief into action by expanding security cooperation between Egypt and Israel and by bringing the Gulf states into his undeclared alliance with the Jewish state.Between Libya & Israel? Only Egypt. CIA Operation Arab Spring continues.He has also acted to end the demonization of Israel in the Egyptian media.
Obviously, supporting Sisi is a no-brainer for a leader who insists that his goal is to empower moderate Muslims. And yet, far from being Sisi’s greatest supporter, Obama opposes him.
Since Sisi led the Egyptian military in overthrowing the Obama-backed Muslim Brotherhood regime as it was poised to transform Egypt into a jihadist terrorist state, Obama has worked to undermine him.
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