Our country would be a whole lot safer if we didn’t have this recent modern history of PC multi-culturalisms groupthink. Be nice, diverse, enlightened and for equality by importing muslims galore. Brilliant idea from the DC pukes and policy wonks ay?
Even after 9-11 GWB was touting Islam as a religion of peace. Yeh, right. So W should not get blamed for 9-11 but yet he didn’t put in effective measures enough to keep us safer due to PC crapola niceties. So here we are with our own muzzie import issues.
That is pablum for Muslim consumption. Every president who doesn't want to commit nuclear genocide while conducting operations in a Muslim country will say this. The idea being that some Muslim leader* both the US and the locals can live with will run the country. If Bush had said that Islam is a Satanic cult that deserves to be exterminated, no leader we back would have been acceptable to the locals. No president who wants to avoid a life term in prison after he leaves office will exterminate the population of a Muslim country. So the alternative is to say "nice doggy" (i.e. "Islam is a religion of peace") to Muslims while whaling on the terrorists among them.
* Why use a local leader? Why not rule directly? Because short of nuclear genocide or Mongol-style governance (i.e. the massacre of an entire village for the loss of one soldier), our casualties would have been higher - we would have needed many more troops in-country to perform normal policing functions.