Tuesday, September 18, 2012

US should obviously stop all aid to Egypt and Libya, stop all US travel there, stop issuing visas from there

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Said Victor Davis Hanson on John Batchelor show, end of hour two, Tues., 9/18/12. In a 9/14/12 column he adds:

"Raging crowds and Islamic wrath could not possibly be connected to the enlightened Obama administration or, more generally to a U.S. that has been “reset” on his watch — given the three years of laborious Muslim outreach and the long-ago departure of George Bush. So we are to think away all those burning flags, stormed consulates, and dead Americans, and instead remember that the violence “is a response,” a sort of cry of the heart against a couple of America-residing video makers — and has nothing much to do with any anger at well-meaning Americans per se.

Apparently no one in charge seems to grasp that this latest video pretext is simply yet another tool, in a long line of many, for premodern Islamists to manipulate and galvanize their fury against the United States, whose success and power obsess them no end — no matter what we do or who happens to be in the White House, soaring Cairo speech and “leading from behind” or not."

9/14/12, "Pay No Attention to the Burning Flags, Stormed Consulates, and Dead Americans . . .," NRO, Victor Davis Hanson


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