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.
Bartender, I’ll have what he’s having.
Well it had been awhile since an airplane struck a skyscraper but that was an accident
Well, if you exclude the violence against Christians as inconsequential, or even as necessary and justified,
then, yes, he’s right.
Does he have shamans reading bird entrails or something?
This man is a lying sack.
Holy smokes!
What wars were fought between 1975 and 1985?
**actually is probably**
Dear Mr. President,
SHUT UP.
Sincerely,
GC
A workplace accident
proof he lives in his own little WORLD
Valerie Jarrett: Just tell them that it was worse 40 years ago. They will believe anything you tell them. You are the smartest man in the world. Oh yeah, close the door on your way out, will ya?
Is it possible he is just so surrounded with yes-men and idiots that this is all he knows?
He has to be ignorant or lying
it must be one or the other
If you leave out Ukraine, Kenya, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Palestine Afghanistan, Somalia, and Yemen, he's right.
Please feel free to compete my list
This idiot truly lives in another realm of time and space. It’s laughable to listen to until one realizes he currently occupies the White House.
The Middle East in in flames, East and West Africa are in constant turmoil and mass murder, Ukraine is having a civil war with Russians, China is building military up faster than ever. Detroit looks like a war zone, the North Africans are migrating en masse to Europe’s southern shores, ISIS is murdering their way across the Levant...................If it gets any more peaceful we’ll have to call in the Space Aliens and hope they are friendly.....................
LOL. Yes, I almost forgot about Grenada. Then there is Jimmy Carter’s miserable failure in Tehran.
Obunghole lives in an alternate universe.
If you look to our own country, you’ll know this is a lie from the pit of hell.
Comparing the violence levels from the 70’s to today is a joke.
Less violence then 40 years ago...?
The B.S. meter broke on that one.
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