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That President Obama wonât call it Islamic terrorism; that he believes we shouldnât be on a âhigh horseâ because America and Christians have done bad things; that Muslims are victims of âbigotry and prejudiceâ; that his State Department says itâs the lack of jobs, not religion, that fuels ISIS, should come as no surprise.
After all, he said the same thing about 9/11.
In 2004, Obama released an update of his 1995 memoir, âDreams from My Father,â with a little-noticed new preface about the attacks.
âOn September 11, 2001,â Obama wrote, ââŚhistory returned with a vengeance; in fact, as Faulkner reminds us, the past is never dead and buried â it isnât even past.â
âThis collective history, this past, directly touches my own,â he added. âNot merely because, as a consequence of 9/11, my name is an irresistible target of mocking websites from overzealous Republican operatives. But also because the underlying struggle between worlds of plenty and worlds of wantâŚis the struggle set forth, on a miniature scale, in this book,â which at its core is an indictment against Western imperialism, racism and colonialism.
Obama goes on to say he identifies with the âdesperation and disorder of the powerless,â and how they can âeasily slip into violence and despair.â
âI know, I have seen, the desperation and disorder of the powerless; how it twists the lives of children on the streets of Jakarta or Nairobi in much the same way as it does the lives of children on Chicagoâs South Side, how narrow the path is for them between humiliation and untrammeled fury, how easily they slip into violence and despair,â he wrote. âI know that the response of the powerful to this disorder â alternating as it does between a dull complacency and, when the disorder spills out of its proscribed confines, a steady, unthinking application of force, of longer prison sentences and more sophisticated military hardware â is inadequate to the task.â
Obama implies terrorism is simply a spasm of violence which erupts among the poor in response to that desperation.
So what does he make of âJihadi John,â unmasked this week as Mohammed Emwazi, 28, who grew up in middle-class London? He wasnât poor. His family emigrated from Kuwait to the UK, and he received a degree in computer programming from the University of Westminster.
In âDreams from My Father,â he sums up the section on 9/11 by saying that âI know that the hardening of lines, the embrace of fundamentalism and tribe, dooms us all.â But that suggests that thereâs some equivalency there â between the embrace of a âfundamentalismâ that burns Christians to death and a âhardening of linesâ that says the United States should fight that with âmore sophisticated hardware.â
Had the media examined Obamaâs ideology a little more closely in the 2008 election, perhaps we wouldnât have a president who holds the US to equal scorn as its enemies.
âThe Muslim world has suffered historical grievances,â Obama last month asserted while hosting his âSummit on Countering Violent Extremism.â He blamed the rash of global terrorism in part on âa history of colonialismâ in the Mideast, Africa and South Asia.
Until these âeconomic and political grievancesâ are addressed â ânot as a matter of military affairsâ but by changing out âcorruptâ regimes that âsuppress Islamâ and by funding more foreign jobs programs â terrorist attacks will continue to plague the West, he said.
Obama was as clueless about 9 11 as he is about ISIS New York Post
The disaster continues.
After all, he said the same thing about 9/11.
In 2004, Obama released an update of his 1995 memoir, âDreams from My Father,â with a little-noticed new preface about the attacks.
âOn September 11, 2001,â Obama wrote, ââŚhistory returned with a vengeance; in fact, as Faulkner reminds us, the past is never dead and buried â it isnât even past.â
âThis collective history, this past, directly touches my own,â he added. âNot merely because, as a consequence of 9/11, my name is an irresistible target of mocking websites from overzealous Republican operatives. But also because the underlying struggle between worlds of plenty and worlds of wantâŚis the struggle set forth, on a miniature scale, in this book,â which at its core is an indictment against Western imperialism, racism and colonialism.
Obama goes on to say he identifies with the âdesperation and disorder of the powerless,â and how they can âeasily slip into violence and despair.â
âI know, I have seen, the desperation and disorder of the powerless; how it twists the lives of children on the streets of Jakarta or Nairobi in much the same way as it does the lives of children on Chicagoâs South Side, how narrow the path is for them between humiliation and untrammeled fury, how easily they slip into violence and despair,â he wrote. âI know that the response of the powerful to this disorder â alternating as it does between a dull complacency and, when the disorder spills out of its proscribed confines, a steady, unthinking application of force, of longer prison sentences and more sophisticated military hardware â is inadequate to the task.â
Obama implies terrorism is simply a spasm of violence which erupts among the poor in response to that desperation.
So what does he make of âJihadi John,â unmasked this week as Mohammed Emwazi, 28, who grew up in middle-class London? He wasnât poor. His family emigrated from Kuwait to the UK, and he received a degree in computer programming from the University of Westminster.
In âDreams from My Father,â he sums up the section on 9/11 by saying that âI know that the hardening of lines, the embrace of fundamentalism and tribe, dooms us all.â But that suggests that thereâs some equivalency there â between the embrace of a âfundamentalismâ that burns Christians to death and a âhardening of linesâ that says the United States should fight that with âmore sophisticated hardware.â
Had the media examined Obamaâs ideology a little more closely in the 2008 election, perhaps we wouldnât have a president who holds the US to equal scorn as its enemies.
âThe Muslim world has suffered historical grievances,â Obama last month asserted while hosting his âSummit on Countering Violent Extremism.â He blamed the rash of global terrorism in part on âa history of colonialismâ in the Mideast, Africa and South Asia.
Until these âeconomic and political grievancesâ are addressed â ânot as a matter of military affairsâ but by changing out âcorruptâ regimes that âsuppress Islamâ and by funding more foreign jobs programs â terrorist attacks will continue to plague the West, he said.
Obama was as clueless about 9 11 as he is about ISIS New York Post
The disaster continues.