I don't disagree with anything you said. I was just pointing out why President Bush can't come out and call Islam what it is.
I've read the Koran, so I know what it's about, and it makes me sick to my stomach to hear it called "the religion of peace" too.
He seems to be moving in that direction. In the State of the Union speech he called the enemy "radical Islam," rather than Islamism or hijackers-of-the-ROP or whatever. Finally calling it Islam, that's what the poseurs call a paradigm shift. And high time we had one.
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to sound so acerbic. I know President Bush is the President to all people even muslims. It just irritates me that we have an enemy that we are not allowed to call by its name. We must say "musilim extremists" or "islamic militants" and pretend that there is a difference between them and the average muslim. Can you imagine our fathers and grandfathers not being allowed to say that the Germans or the Japanese are the enemy? :0)
I disagree. How about a leader who tells it like it is? Diplomacy is going to kill us.