Quote: ThirstyMan wrote in post #27

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Polybius, what Barack doesn't seem to understand is how the Muslim mindset sees compromise and tolerance as weakness, not friendship. Benghazi is an example. He let them plot and kill our Ambassador and staff. They walked all over him and he essentially played 'possum, never even mounted a defense.

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There is nothing wrong with being open-minded and tolerant. The problem with Obama is that you cannot be so open minded that your brains fall out.

Stupidity is a weakness that nobody respects and which every opponent, from Putin to Castro to North Korea to Iran to al Qaeda, will take advantage of.

For those of us who have been in the military, it is not uncommon to have a friend in the U.S. military that shows us around the house and shows us the family photos: “There is my Mom, Helga, and my Dad, Frank (in a U.S. Army uniform). That’s my grandfather, Manfred, and that’s my uncle, Werner (in German uniforms).”

Your family can be tolerant of Germans to the point that Dad married one but only an idiot takes the view that there was nothing grotesquely wrong with the mindset of tens of thousands of men in the Third Reich, ….. maybe even “Großvater Manfred” who did not survive the war and who Mom never talks about.

In geopolitical terms, Obama (and previously Jimmy Carter) are like naïve children that view the World as if it were a Disney movie. Yes, Kadhafi was a pretty bad guy and so is Assad. Mubarak in Egypt was not exactly Thomas Jefferson and neither was the Shah of Iran. However, you cannot mindlessly support opposition to a “bad guy” or a “non-democratic” guy without considering that secular bad guys that have been getting along relatively well or very well with the U.S. are vastly preferable to Islamist fanatic religious nutjobs that have no problem asking for U.S. airstrikes against Kadhafi on Tuesday and planning the suicide bombings against U.S. targets on Wednesday.

Obama absolutely refuses to even address the issue that radical Islam exists and that is as idiotic as refusing to acknowledge that Nazi terror existed just so that you do not offend your fellow U.S. Naval officer whose maternal grandfather may have been a murderous Nazi Waffen SS officer, that, frankly, deserved to have been killed in the war.

As I have posted before, my sister's long-time "significant other" is an Iranian physician who fled Iran after the fall of the Shah. I asked her what he thought about the bombers and she said, "He told me that the older brother was obviously radicalized by Islamist fanatics."

The dynamic is obvious. A Muslim man immediately identifies it without mincing words. Yet, Barack Obama, President of the United States of America, plays the idiot on worldwide TV and wonders aloud about trying to discover "Why they would do such a thing".

And Vladimir Putin is supposed to respect such an idiot?

Quote: algernonpj wrote in post #29

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Quote: ThirstyMan wrote in post #27

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Polybius, what Barack doesn't seem to understand is how the Muslim mindset sees compromise and tolerance as weakness, not friendship. Benghazi is an example. He let them plot and kill our Ambassador and staff. They walked all over him and he essentially played 'possum, never even mounted a defense.

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Has it occurred to you that Obama understands just fine.

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No it hadn't. That is a scary thought.