Terrorism: President Obama's "they are not holy warriors" speech bombed. So the next day, he gave a speech with harder military rhetoric. Sorry, "reject the narratives" of the enemy is no substitute for "bombs away!"
Obama had plenty of compliments for Islam Wednesday at his "Summit on Countering Violent Extremism," even declaring, "Here in America, Islam has been woven into the fabric of our country since its founding," and noting that the first American mosque was in, of all places, North Dakota.
But two days earlier, he wouldn't support Egyptian and Emirates' airstrikes against Islamist militias in Libya in retaliation for the videotaped beheading of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians. How about some support for our Islamic friends as they bomb our Islamic enemies?
Wednesday's "first, we have to confront squarely and honestly the twisted ideologies that these terrorist groups use to incite people to violence" was replaced with Thursday's "first, we must remain unwavering in our fight against terrorist organizations."
In just 18 hours, the line about having to "confront the warped ideologies espoused by terrorists like al-Qaida and ISIL, especially their attempt to use Islam to justify their violence" was relegated to "second" in what we have to do to defeat "violent extremism." The words "Islamism" and "Islamist" were absent.
"They are not religious leaders" but "have perverted Islam," Obama claims. It's like Franklin D. Roosevelt saying the Nazis gave German expansionism a bad name.Read the rest of the story HERE.
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Does this surprise anyone? Have we had binders on for six years? Sarc/
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