Ideological Chaos

 

September 11, 2012:

• Haaretz reported that the White House decline[d] Netanyahu request to meet with Obama.

• Meanwhile, President Obama was making his anniversary "remarks" at the Pentagon: 

Al Qaeda's leadership has been devastated...

Osama bin Laden will never threaten us again....

 

 

That same day, our embassies were being attacked in dozens of cities across the Muslim Middle East

 

 

 -- and our Ambassador was being killed in Benghazi and his body dragged through the streets.

 

That day, the American press corpse found cause to rebuke Mitt Romney. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It wasn't until a week later that it was reported -- by way of an op-ed by Ed Husain in the New York   -- what those Muslim mobs were chanting:

 

"Obama, Obama,

We Are All Osama."

 

Interestingly, when you go back and read that op-ed, Husain's conclusion was that we (that is, the United States) need to "create a new narrative."  His last line was:

 A new generation of Arabs deserve a better future than following the madness of those who shout, "Obama, Obama, we are all Osama."

 

I imagine that's where Obama got the idea for his speech at the UN General Assembly, Erev Yom Kippur, in which he talked about "the future" and those to whom it "must not belong." 

 

All I know is, we live in very scary times. 

Comments

[Mannie Sherberg]

The Husain commentary is just more of the same preposterous piffle that's bedeviled American foreign policy for years. America can create an endless series of new "narratives" or new fairy tales or new bubba meyses -- and all of them together won't have any influence whatsoever on "a new generation of Arabs." It's up to that new generation of Arabs to provide its own new narrative -- a narrative markedly different from the Jew-hating, infidel-despising, woman-fearing, jihad-loving, caliphate-dreaming, death-obsessed narrative that now rules the Muslim world. America can't change this narrative because Americans can't rewrite the Koran. Only Muslims can. As long as we accept the Husain-Obama thesis that American-made narratives can re-make the Arab world, we can look forward to more carnage in the Middle East and more Americans returned to their native soil in coffins.