Christians must to find a way to justify war because their founder was a pacifist. Muslins have to defend peace because their founder was a warrior.
Although I am not a pessimist, who sees the conflict of cultures as inevitable, we ignore this distinction at our own peril. The Obama doctrine of political correctness would have us believe that all religions are inherently peaceful. By turning a blind eye to the fundamental philosophical differences between East and West we only delude ourselves into believing that humanity will not give into to its baser instincts. History has shown this point of view to be naive and dangerous. American foreign policy must never be built on the shifting sands of wishful thinking but rather on the solid bedrock of history and philosophy.
Since the…
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To hear Scheherazade tell the story, it sounds almost plausible.
"If we can end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and create a two state solution we will unite the Arab world to confront our existential enemy nuclear Iran."
The biggest myth of all is that any of the Arab States or Iran gives a damn about the fate of the Palestinians or a Palestinian State. Not a single Arab State or Iran has ever seriously used its petrodollars to improve the lot of the long-suffering Palestinian people. They have however, spent billions to inflame the conflict for their own political purposes.
Hamas and Hezbollah do not receive money and military support because they are fighting a war of liberation, but rather as a diversion for the populace of Iran and the Arab States so that…
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Barack Obama will travel to Egypt next month to deliver a long-anticipated speech about America's relations with the Muslim world.
"President Obama will deliver his long-promised speech to the Muslim world in Egypt next month", White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs declared. It does make one wonder what Obama sees as the role of the United States in the 21st century. Will the secular U.S. government give de facto recognition to a global "Islamic State" that supersedes our relationship with the secular governments of these countries? Will he stop on the way back in Rome to discuss U.S. relations with Catholic countries and go on to London to discuss U.S. Anglican relations?
What could a U.S. President possibly say beyond the fact that we respect all religions and we believe that every…
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