Editorial on Anti-United States Sentiment in Middle East
Reader comment on item: Emerson interviewed on Fox News about the growing anti U.S. sentiment in the Middle East

Submitted by Jim, Nov 1, 2012 11:39

As an instructor in Terrorism and like matters I think that our president and a goodly portion of his administration are definitely pro-Islamist in a naive sort of way. I know that he has some good advisors on the CIA side but I think he and many of his insiders exhibit strategic (long term) ignorance concerning the ramifications of our actions in the Middle East. Hatred for the West is rampant because Salafi and Wahhabi ideology preaches isolation and the vanquishing of non-believers from their lands. We need to get Muslims away from the radical thinking that leads to terrorism. Our administration talks a good story about supporting Israel but deeds tell me otherwise. This has also encouraged radicals to attack. Our weakness and lukewarm response to the 1979 Iranian Hostage Crisis merely showed radical leaders that we can be paper tigers. Obama's actions are what are important, not what he says. We have little respect because they view our president as a typical amoral western demogogue. In my opinion the president is also perceived overseas as someone who embraces typical liberal Western views which are generally dispised by religious minded Muslims.


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