The Obama Administration doesn’t want to call our fight against terrorism a “struggle against militant Islamic radicalism.”
Maybe we should call it the “Misunderstanding against people who’d be our friends if we could just get along.”
The following is a good example of how misguided the Obama Administration is on foreign policy. In explaining why the U.S. shouldn’t focus on discussing terrorism with Muslim countries:
Visiting communist China in 1984, Reagan spoke at Fudan University in Shanghai about education, space exploration and scientific research. He discussed freedom and liberty. He never mentioned communism or democracy.
“They didn’t look up to the U.S. because we hated communism,” said Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes, Obama’s foreign policy speechwriter.
China, from its perspective, wasn’t being harmed by communism, and for that matter, the United States wasn’t at direct risk either.
Going to Egypt, where Obama reportedly only made a passing reference to terrorism, is a lot different. Egypt doesn’t (or shouldn’t) like or want terrorism and the U.S. is at a direct risk. In other words, terrorism is a big problem for both the United States and Egypt. Communism wasn’t seen as a problem for both China and the U.S.
Obama made his major focus, when speaking in Cairo, the fight against polio in some Muslim countries. This is a good issue to cooperate on, but it isn’t a major issue facing the United States.
The president’s goal shouldn’t be getting the approval of other countries and to be a philanthropist with American taxpayer dollars. The role of the President is to represent the country on the most important issues facing this country. Not taking any meaningful time to discuss terrorism while in Egypt is a failure on Obama’s part. The polio endemic in some Muslim countries just doesn’t rank that high when compared to the national security of this country.
