Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Barack Obama - "Still Willfully Blind"
Pretending that bad guys don't exist, or that they have good intentions just doesn't cut it.
We must start seeing and calling things as they are...
We must start seeing and calling things as they are...
Andy McCarthy writes at NationalReview.com:
"In national security, we are supposed to put in charge adults who are capable of getting outside their own biases and childish fantasies. It doesn't matter what President Obama thinks about faith; his obligation is to acknowledge and act on what others understand their faith to compel — even if the president finds that horrifying to contemplate.
After the carnage we've seen for two decades, and the high religious authorities that have endorsed it, it is simply astounding that an American president — at a solemn memorial service for soldiers killed just days ago by a jihadist acting on his rational, broadly accepted understanding of his religious duty — could claim that "no faith justifies" sneak-attack murders, and that no religion teaches that 'God looks upon them with favor.' In fact, a widely held interpretation of Islam holds exactly these principles. No one is saying that all Muslims follow Hasan's construction of Islam, but hundreds of millions do and they have scriptures to back up their beliefs — scriptures we could all read if we'd just pull our heads out of the sand.
To deny that is to deny reality. A country can't be protected by people who lack the will to face reality."
