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Does Trump Grasp the Reality of ‘Radical Islam’?
NRO ^ | Andrew McCarthy

Posted on 12/31/2016 2:15:26 AM PST by RoosterRedux

While candidate Trump was demanding that the enemy be named, and me-too Hillary was thus goaded into the occasional mention of “jihadists,” Obama tried to defend his refusal to invoke radical Islam. The defense was classic Obama. Part One was flat wrong: “There’s no religious rationale,” he maintained, that would justify” the “barbarism” in which terrorists engage — something that could only be right if we ignore scripture and adopt Obama’s eccentric notion of “religious rationale.” Part Two drew on Obama’s bottomless supply of strawmen: “Using the phrase ‘radical Islam,’” he lectured, will not make the terrorist threat “go away” — as if anyone had claimed it would.

The point, of course, is not that there is talismanic power in uttering an enemy’s identity. It is to convey, to the enemy and to an anxious American public, that our leader comprehends who the enemy is, what the enemy’s objectives are, and what drives the enemy to achieve them.

Obviously, Obama is too smart not to know this. After eight infuriating years, I am beyond trying to fathom whether his intentional gibberish masks some misguided but well-meaning strategy, some dogma to which he is hopelessly beholden, or something more sinister. The imperative now is to address the mess he is leaving behind, not unwind how and why he came to make it.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: andymccarthy; isis; muslims; obama; radicalislam; terrorists; trump; trumpislam
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To: Two_Iron

I have a friend who drove a forklift for years. He is vastly more intelligent than 0bola, dittos for welders!

0b0la could never operate a forklift or weld properly.


101 posted on 12/31/2016 2:59:22 PM PST by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: RoosterRedux

His butler who worked for him for years, said Trump used to always get up at 5 AM and 5 newspapers before doing anything.


102 posted on 12/31/2016 3:00:12 PM PST by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: RoosterRedux

His butler who worked for him for years, said Trump used to always get up at 5 AM and READ 5 newspapers before doing anything.


103 posted on 12/31/2016 3:00:20 PM PST by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: odawg

That’s #1. He kissed his hand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3UXiBdMm5I


104 posted on 12/31/2016 4:58:08 PM PST by Candor7 ( Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: RoosterRedux; Fred Nerks

You should submit that article to some of the online news and opinion sites if you haven’t already.>>>>>>>>>

You are too kind. But I am sure Trump has a good handle on the geopolitical BIG picture. What I so humbly summarized will likely be the foundation of Trump’s foreign policy.


105 posted on 12/31/2016 5:01:53 PM PST by Candor7 ( Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Candor7; RoosterRedux

I’m thinking it was watching this monstrosity attempt to destroy our way of life in favour of mohammadanism, that persuaded that great man to stand for President; he had no need for the Office, he had a wonderful life.


106 posted on 12/31/2016 5:10:08 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum)
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To: Fred Nerks

Dearest Freddie:

Wishing you the most wonderful New Year.

Your loyal Rooster.


107 posted on 12/31/2016 5:20:42 PM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

I believe Trump “gets it.”


108 posted on 12/31/2016 5:22:02 PM PST by truth_seeker
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To: truth_seeker

As do we. Happy New Year!


109 posted on 12/31/2016 5:25:50 PM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux
Same back at you, from your faithful little chicken

We've seen a few New Years go by, haven't we?

110 posted on 12/31/2016 5:31:07 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum)
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To: Fred Nerks

What a cutie.

I remember like yesterday the night you learned how to post images on FR.

Even on my death bed, you will be remembered as my dear friend.


111 posted on 12/31/2016 5:41:18 PM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux
Don't go away yet! Don't die! Come back here and meet my blinking cat

Those were the days...

112 posted on 12/31/2016 10:11:52 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum)
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To: Fred Nerks

;-)


113 posted on 01/01/2017 3:53:01 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux
Obviously Trump is not perfect.

But he's got a much better batting average than his critics in general, and McCarthy in particular. So I'll wait to see how it unfolds before I get too excited.

114 posted on 01/01/2017 7:06:22 AM PST by gogeo (But he's not a conserrrrrvative!)
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To: Fred Nerks; MNJohnnie

good points, thanks (my awareness on this topic is still at a casual level only)


115 posted on 01/02/2017 1:45:45 PM PST by SteveH
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