Posted on 02/01/2009 7:33:29 PM PST by jessduntno
Obama’s Message to Muslims Called ‘Pathetic’
In his interview with a Saudi-owned TV channel on Tuesday, President Barack Obama referred to “an illusionary past” in the Muslim world that was in fact plagued by turmoil, a leading Middle Eastern expert declared.
Amir Taheri, in a New York Post column headlined “Pathetic Message,” said Obama “looked to the past rather than the future” when he told an Al-Arabiya interviewer he wanted a return to “the same respect and partnership that America had with the Muslim world as recently as 20 or 30 years ago.”
But 30 years ago, Taheri noted, American diplomats were being held hostage in Iran, Soviet troops were seeking to annex Afghanistan, Saddam Hussein was preparing to invade Iran, Saudi Arabia was under siege by Muslim militants, and Syrian troops were preparing to invade Lebanon.
Iranian-born Taheri, whose books include “Holy Terror: Inside the World of Islamic Terrorism,” wrote in the Post that “other features of this ‘golden age’” were “the seizure of power by mullahs in Tehran, the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, the coming to power of communists in the Horn of Africa, the military coup in Turkey, the first Islamist terror attacks in Algeria, unprecedented waves of repression in Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and the imposition of military rule in Pakistan.”
Twenty years ago saw the U.S. arming the mujahedin in Afghanistan, Iraq gassing thousands of Kurds and preparing to invade Kuwait, Iranian mullahs arming Hezbollah units in Lebanon, Turkey launching all-out attacks on Kurdish secessionists, and the Libyan terror network killing American soldiers in Europe and blowing up U.S. jets.
“Nor was there any nod toward reformers in Saudi Arabia and Egypt.”
Obama sought to portray himself as a “bridge” between the U.S. and the Muslim world...
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0bama is a melanin and naivete enriched Jimmuh Cahtuh.
You've just insulted bushers here.
Sounds like the ol’ hopeadope to me.
A doormat would be a better analogy.
“You’ve just insulted bushers here.”
Oh...sorry...I once called him an a low life and needed to apologize to low lifes everywhere, too...my sincerest apologies to all of those who are in no way ready for the bigs, for the slam...
There is one dim ray of light in this otherwise completely gloomy situation.
While bammy may have shown cowardice, weakness and timidity in his interview, the magic marxist hasn’t surrendered to the caliphate yet.
Yet.
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