When you propose an alternative strategy, it is helpful to think ahead further than immediate gratification. Leaving Islam out of the speech would also direct their enmity to the Jews in even harsher terms, since Judaism was mentioned.
I see nothing wrong with what the President said, and I refuse to subscribe to the idea that anti-Muslim statements woul be at all productive.
And if the President, as you say, is pandering to the Muslims in America out of fear...FEAR... is all the more disturbing.
I see nothing wrong with what the President said, and I refuse to subscribe to the idea that anti-Muslim statements woul be at all productive.
Again, no one is asking that the President make an "anti-Muslim" statement, but that he not equate the Koran with the Bible. Best that he not mention it at all.
He doesn't care if he offends Christian Americans because we're not the ones threatening to slit throats, behead people, crash jetliners into skyscrapers, and blow stuff up. So, he's pandering to those who support that and do that out of fear. And you're OK with that?
We need to formulate foreign policy and adopt a moral and ethical posture based on what enrages or inflames CAIR? Get real.
Jimmy Carter tried that with the little Teheran incident, and it brought the avalanche of "paper tiger" encouragement which has lasted to this very day.
How much more worse can the propaganda abroad be? Since when has it been based on reality?