Trump also, although being totally respectful to Islam as one religion among the three Abraamaic religions, did not subtly state, as Obola did, that it was the valid one, when he said Islam was “revealed to the Prophet Mohamed.”
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Yes. I didn’t notice that, but I see it now.
Diplomacy is a difficult tightrope act, especially when you’re doing what the President did and working for reform. Bush... just seemed perfectly fine with countries financing terrorism as long as he could have his Iraq war, and Obama cheerled for them to just get worse and worse.
But now the President is endorsing reform of the governments, and more subtlety, reform of Islam. You can have an ideal or cynical vision of whether it will work, but the point that I’m trying to get to is that in order to get people to go along with the ideas you’re espousing, you can’t insult them, like some people on this thread seem to be wanting. But you also can’t leave them comfortable with the status quo.