Posted on 04/22/2015 10:29:01 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
President Obama said he wanted Americans to gain perspective and be thankful there is less violence now than there was during the Cold War.
Obama predicted Islam’s process to rid itself of extremism would be a “generational project,” he said in an interview with Chris Matthews.
“I remind people that, you know, there actually is probably less war and less violence around the world today than there might have been 30, 40 years ago. It doesn’t make it any less painful but things can get better,” Obama said.
The president set a high standard for himself: at least the United States is not involved in another Cold War. Obama did not compare his time in the White House with that of his predecessors. Instead, he portrayed his six years in a more promising point of view by contrasting it with some of the most violent and politically complex times in modern world history.
LOL how do you guys do all that cool stuff? I’m a newbie so I’ll just stick to unformatted text :)
He’s either a lying sack or even more delusional than we feared.
He is channeling Steven Pinker, Better Angels of Our Nature.
Pinker (and BHO) have a point in that forced relocations of whole populations and ethnic/ religious groups have been occurring at a rapid pace over the past 40-50 years, such that certain parts of the world are now denuded of the troublesome enemy. Just wait: the ME in 10 years, completely emptied of Christians, just may turn out to be peaceful, for those who dare to stay.
Global warming creates world peace.
DELISIONAL . This is why drugs should be stopped, fairy boy is a prime example of too many drugs .
Obama is talking to himself...He’s full of chit!
LOL, Lets not forget Indonesia.
Less violence...? Oh yeah...If you ignore the 40 people at a clip being decapitated every week...What a damn fool!!!
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The world probably seems relatively calm to him after he left Chicago.
Those are Christians. In Obama’s mind, that’s justified.
Great. According to Obama having 10-20 nations fighting and increasing is actually a decrease, even though it increased. Meaning more wars mean less wars, and more violence now means less violence. This is a funny world Obama lives in, inside the white house and inside his brain
Thanks!
Obama is a liar and he is a madman. I think he is crazier than a bedbug on crack.
Comparing the violence levels from the 70’s to today is a joke.
At least we don’t have the racial strife we had back
then, what with our trans-president and all....../s.
Oh wait, maybe that should be gender strife, oh heck,
now I’m confused, just like the rest of America.
“I remind people that, you know, there actually is probably less war and less violence around the world today than there might have been 30, 40 years ago.”
“probably...”
“might have been...”
A man bereft of facts and data.
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