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Orson Scott Card: What Obama Should Have Said
Filed under: Appeasement, Islamists, Jihad, Obama, Politics, Terrorism, War on terror
It would have been so simple for Obama to handle this like a statesman instead of a whiner.
President Bush went to Israel to affirm America’s ironclad support of Israel’s survival as a nation. While there are Americans who don’t agree with it, this has been the policy of the United States from the foundation of Israel on. President Bush didn’t invent the policy, but he affirms it more vigorously and intelligently than most Presidents have done.
President Bush said, “Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along.”
Thus he stated, quite clearly, how delusional are those who think that what we have in our war with radical Islam is a “failure to communicate.” There is no failure: communication has been crystal clear. Our enemies have announced their firm intention to destroy our civilization, to kill all the Jews, and to kill any Muslim who doesn’t go along with their program. Iran has announced its intention, if they get nuclear missiles, to obliterate Tel Aviv. Al Qaeda has declared its intention to destroy the West.
We are not misunderstanding their intentions — they have acted exactly according to these stated goals whenever they have had the power to do so.
There is nothing we can do, short of killing them or surrendering to them, that will stop them from acting as they have been acting for decades — murderously and relentlessly. There is certainly nothing we can say.
