programmer: It is not enough to be a good, skilled warrior to be a leader. You must be an honorable and trustworthy person in all things.
Trustworthy? TRUSTWORTHY? The closest Obama gets to the “truth” is truthiness.
The man wouldn’t know the truth if it bit him on the neck. I’m no fan of George Bush but Onbama is the penultimate Empty Suit™. Is there one single important issue that Obama has remained steadfast on without ever reversing his position? The man pivots like a jeweled Swiss movement.
Never in my entire life have I seen a presidential candidate of any stripe so completely WITHOUT an averred platform or policy.
sirius_sir: It seems some people believe good things merely happen. Or happen due to the good graces of others, and have little or nothing to do with our own efforts. Nancy Pelosi believes the problem of Sadr and the Shi-ite militias was resolved due to the beneficence of the Iranians. Why not go one farther and say that al Qaeda decided to give us a break as well? [emphasis added]
I have seen few better descriptions than the foregoing of Liberal-style “magical thinking”. Obama and other democrats’ willingness to negotiate with our Islamic enemies demonstrates exactly how dangerous their brand of wishful thinking is.
Even the most cursory examination of Islam’s central tenets like zakat, jihad, the global caliphate and shari’a law lays bare the fact that, for Muslims, these issues are non-negotiable.
So, how do you negotiate with an enemy whose basic goals are non-negotiable?
As sirius_sir noted, “good things” don’t just magically happen. They are the result of intention, will and determined effort. In the case of Islam, the only “good things” that are going to happen WILL NOT occur simply because Muslims are going to play nice or “al Qaeda decided to give us a break”.
Any progress in the battle against Islam’s terrorism will happen because we have the will to BREAK al Qaeda and all other forms of Islamic theocracy.
Obama and the democratic party are so drunk on Multicultural Kool-Aid that they would sooner break America on the altar of moral relativism than ever admit how force of arms must be used to defend our nation against the biggest threat since Nazism and communism COMBINED.
In light of how Iran is seeking to manufacture a nuclear truck bomb for delivery against The United States, even four short years of Islamic appeasement could well be FATAL. There will be no “peace in our time” until Islam’s spine is snapped like a dry twig.
