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| Afghan crowd with masked Obama on his knees, his hands postured as if begging forgiveness |
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Krauthammer On Apology: Embarrassing, Self-Debasement And Groveling
"That was embarrassing what we saw," Charles Krauthammer said about the Obama administration issuing multiple apologies to the Muslim world for the Koran-burning incident.
"We have gone from apology here to abject self-debasement and groveling. And groveling to whom? To the mob. We should've had a single apology from the commander on the ground and that's it. Not from the Secretary of Defense. Not from the President, of all people. Remember when the president had to pick up the phone when there was a crazy pastor in Florida who wanted a Koran burning and he had to be talked out of it," Krauthammer said on FOX News' "Special Report."
"Is the president in charge of offenses against a certain religious tradition in the world?" Krauthammer asked.
"This is a world in which nobody asked the Islamic conference, the grouping of the 56 Islamic countries to issue an apology when Christians are attacked and churches are burned in Egypt or in Pakistan. And have we heard a word from any Islamic leader anywhere about the radical Muslims in Nigeria, who not only are burning churches but burning women and children who are Christian in the Churches. When I hear that I'll expect my president to start issuing an apology," he said.
Commentator Kirsten Powers disagreed.
"No, absolutely not," she said when asked if the Obama administration went "too far" in their multiple apologies...
NOTE: For a full video of this debate, click HERE
[Real Clear Politics]
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Apology Didn't Soothe The Mob, It Intensified The Violence
Charles Krauthammer: "I think what's happened over the last few days is definitive evidence of how ineffective the apology has been. If I thought the apology could save one American life I'd swallow hard and say to the president to go ahead and do it. But he did do it and it did not soothe the savage mob. In fact, it intensified the violence.
NOTE: For a full video of this second debate, click HERE
[Real Clear Politics]
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2 comments:
This is nonsense. It was the right thing to do. It was right when Bush did it. It was right when Obama did it. And watch them burn bibles in Afghanistan and see what the Christian Fundamentalists and Tea Partiers have to say about it. How do Jews like to see the Torah treated? Did it quell the unrest and violence immediately? Maybe not. How long does it take an apology to filter through the populace of a place like Afghanistan? They are not all cruising the net looking for what Obama said today, nor sitting and watching CNN on their satellite TV.
Radical Muslim thugs have been burning Christians in their churches and there's no trace of riots or violence from Christians.
Yes, Jews & Christians are vocal about attacks on their holy books...but can be counted on not to riot and murder as a result. A large difference.
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