A Strange Cure
2015-03-09 - by
President Obama held a summit up in Washington about terrorism but decided not to say the words ‘Muslim terrorist.’
Instead, he announced, he was leading a crusade to stop ‘Violent Extremism’ and, then he put his finger on the root cause of the villainy: Violent Extremism, he said, is caused by political disenfranchisement and poverty.
Then he spelled out the cure: Human Rights. Religious tolerance. And peaceful dialogue.
Which sounded sensible and ecumenical and logical except for one obvious contradiction: Our own nation was founded in war by revolutionaries disenfranchised by a corrupt King but they didn’t go around chopping off innocent people’s heads.
A Strange Cure
2015-03-09/
President Obama held a summit up in Washington about terrorism but decided not to say the words ‘Muslim terrorist.’
Instead, he announced, he was leading a crusade to stop ‘Violent Extremism’ and, then he put his finger on the root cause of the villainy: Violent Extremism, he said, is caused by political disenfranchisement and poverty.
Then he spelled out the cure: Human Rights. Religious tolerance. And peaceful dialogue.
Which sounded sensible and ecumenical and logical except for one obvious contradiction: Our own nation was founded in war by revolutionaries disenfranchised by a corrupt King but they didn’t go around chopping off innocent people’s heads.