David McCoullough explores the president's suggestion that poverty is somehow the cause of jihadist activity. McCoullough sites Obama's resent statement that the Christmas day bomber traveled to Yemen, "a country grappling with crushing poverty." What does that have to do with anything?
I wrote about this poverty excuse right after the attack and pointed out that Umar was the son of a wealthy Nigerian banker.
The poverty-leads-to-jihad excuse is the replacement for "America is evil" excuse. We can't be evil now because we have the chosen one in office. So we have to find another primary excuse for jihadism. The poverty excuse falls in line with the president's other plans and policies foreign and domestic.
It all boils down to wealth redistribution and the dream of every liberal ending "disparities." Spend about 5 minutes with your average liberal person, particularly those entrenched in academia like Mr. Obama, and you'll hear the whole ending disparities nonsense a hundred times. So, now ending jihad is a new excuse to redistribute income. Put this together with his efforts to help poor nations deal with "climate change" and you soon see that the American taxpayer is in for a soaking.
Won't we all be happy with there is no income/wealth disparity in America or around the world, when we're all poor?
Come on...Either you are just intentionally partisan and intentionally write without looking at the big picture or you are an idiot. I'm more conservative than you and even I know that while poverty did NOT cause this one incident, it is a major factor in terrorism (it's so known in the intelligence community). Obama (a man I hardly ever agree with) is looking at the hard facts and the big picture. Unlike this post.
ReplyDeleteI see you had trouble with the reading comprehension portion of the SAT.
ReplyDeleteFirst, your knee-jerk defense of Obama and silly effort to rank your conservativism offers some insight and suggests that you, more than likely, are not ideollogically conservative at all. Did you even bother reading McCoullough's column?
Do Islamofascist leaders take advantage of people being uneducated and poor? Duh. That's why they like to keep people living in the dark ages, particularly women. That love of the dark ages also is a love of a simplistic life.
The people who really embrace jihad don't care about American concepts of wealth. Why do you think Bin Laden was willing to give up a life of luxury? Have you not noticed how many jihadists have been educated in the West, including Mohammed Atta (look him up)? In fact, virtually all of the 9/11 terrorists were from middle-class families. Try reading Terry McDermotts "Perfect Soldiers."
The focus on poverty is a ruse and a consistent part of this president's agenda. He sees the entire world through the lens of haves and have-nots, bourgeosis and proletariat. So the way to address almost every issue boils down to "spreading the wealth." That won't work with Islamofascism.
If you agree with him so much, then that means that the two of you are the ones missing the big picture.
Officially, your blog is the worst. Any other opinion, shut down with criticism. Get a life. Who are you, but a pretentious blogger who thinks they are special or valid. Uh, no. I will stick with reading real news and real blogs, not this facade.
ReplyDeleteComing from you that means so much. While you're reading the "real" news, check out this from the Washington Post:
ReplyDeleteal-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ”called for ‘every Muslim’ to kill ‘every cross-worshiper who works at the [British and American] embassies.’”
Now I suppose if those cross-worshippers would just send over some checks everything would be peachy.