The Pharaoh's new foreign policy, as voiced by a State Dept. Orc yesterday, and mostly ignored by the MSM sycophants, seems to admit no enemies of the United States (except for our traditional friends whom The ONE likes to alienate). I think that he might be trying to get the Ron-Paulers to vote for him by making them think he espousing a Jeffersonian foreign policy; perhaps he'll next try to dismantle the DHS next along with firing the TSA gropers. I know that I'm already planning my vacation to sunny Pakistan...or Iran...this summer!
Meanwhile, in Reals-ville, I'm still trying to figure out what the hell the State Dept. means by "
legitimate Islamism"?
Here's an excerpt from a great commentary by Ben Shapiro on Breitbart dot com, all emphasis is my own:
Obama Admin: The War On Terror Is 'Over'
by Ben Shapiro {Breitbart.com, BigPeace.com, 24 April 2012}
Today, the National Journal reported that a senior State Department official has announced, “The war on terror is over.”
“Now that we have killed most of al Qaida,” the source said, “now that people have come to see legitimate means of expression, people who once might have gone into al Qaida see an opportunity for a legitimate Islamism.”
The article itself describes the Obama administration’s new vision of foreign policy, which admits no enemies. Everyone, in this view, is a friend. Islamism, says the Obama administration, is just fine, so long as it does not openly support terrorism.
This, of course, is utter foolishness. Islamism is a religious ideological movement that brooks no real alternatives – so while the State Department proclaims “a legitimate Islamism,” it fails to acknowledge that Islamism, “legitimate” or not, is deeply intolerant of any other modes of expression.
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Obama has created the brave new Middle East – a Middle East that assumes that every human heart has the desire to vote, but not to be truly free; a Middle East that oppresses women and gays and minorities, but pretends at liberalism; a Middle East that despises America but hides that hate behind a façade of multiculturalism, even as it disposes of its internal dissenters.
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Obama is truly declaring an end to the war on Islamism. He has made his peace; he has surrendered. In doing so, he has condemned broad swaths of the world to darkness, and more immediately, he has condemned America to a defensive position in the world. Now there is no proactive America shaping the world to her own ends. Now there is only an atomistic world, a series of billiard balls, in which America waits to be struck before bouncing back.
To Obama, the war on Islamism may be over. For Islamists, the war on America is far from over.
Sources:
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/04/23/Obama-war-on-terrorhttp://decoded.nationaljournal.com/2012/04/can-obama-safely-embrace-islam.php
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