nat4900
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The position of president of the U.S. carries with it the severe responsibility of avoiding emotional outbursts that can make a situation much worse. For all my criticism of GWB, I did admire him for not falling into the labeling trap so much flaunted by Trump and his pissed-off supporters.
NO ONE can ever defeat radical Islamists (note that I can say it, but a US president should not) than other, moderate, sane, SECULAR Muslims and their governments.
To his credit, Bush moderated his remarks after 9-11 to curb the emotions by our citizens to be objective about the attack on us, and not rush us into a religious war. There are almost 2 billion Muslims on our planet and to link all the sins of a fanatical fringe to ALL who follow that faith, borders on insanity. We could never win a "war" based on our versus their ideology.
We NEED Muslims to help us eradicate the fanaticism of a relative few of the same (but misguided and misinterpreted) faith.
Of all the many reasons to prevent a demagogue like Trump to ever step into the presidency, the fact that Trump is just an unprepared, ego-driven charlatan who could land us into a religious world war, is primary.
Obama is absolutely correct...The use of the label of "radical Islamist" resolves NOTHING and only exacerbates the division among those we sorely need to mitigate the current discord.
NO ONE can ever defeat radical Islamists (note that I can say it, but a US president should not) than other, moderate, sane, SECULAR Muslims and their governments.
To his credit, Bush moderated his remarks after 9-11 to curb the emotions by our citizens to be objective about the attack on us, and not rush us into a religious war. There are almost 2 billion Muslims on our planet and to link all the sins of a fanatical fringe to ALL who follow that faith, borders on insanity. We could never win a "war" based on our versus their ideology.
We NEED Muslims to help us eradicate the fanaticism of a relative few of the same (but misguided and misinterpreted) faith.
Of all the many reasons to prevent a demagogue like Trump to ever step into the presidency, the fact that Trump is just an unprepared, ego-driven charlatan who could land us into a religious world war, is primary.
Obama is absolutely correct...The use of the label of "radical Islamist" resolves NOTHING and only exacerbates the division among those we sorely need to mitigate the current discord.