The folly of history's appeasers ...

... is a clearly lost on our president.

I started to write today intent on dismantling the president's "speech to the Muslim world" as the White House dubbed it ... from the incorrect subscribing of various historical innovations to that of Islam's; to their being 7.3 Muslims in the US (it's around 3 million, or 1%) which makes us as he said to a French interviewer, "one of the largest Muslim nations on earth", this after telling a Turkish reporter that we are quote: "not a Christian nation"; to stating a moral equivalence between Palestine & Israel - even using the phrase "on the other hand" between a description of the Holocaust and the Palestinian search for a home land; to the scariest line of all in my estimation: "Any nation or peoples that elevates itself above other civilizations is doomed to fail", a direct slap at the notion of American exceptionalism; even to describing the speech itself as one directed at "the Muslim world" when clearly it was aimed at Arab Muslims, whom represent only 20% of that "Muslim world." But instead let me mention what he should of, could of talked about if his intent is to set the stereotyped image of America "straight."

Going backwards in chronological order: post 9/11 the US removed the vile Taliban from Afghanistan, freeing millions of persecuted Muslims; we have liberated 48 million Muslims in Iraq, causing the first suffrage for women in the 7000 year history of that land while ending a 30 year molestation of that country; the United States helped liberate, and stopped the genocide of, Kosovo Muslims in the 1990's; in that same decade the US liberated millions of Muslim Kuwaitis from a brutal invader; we encouraged, aided and supported the ejection of the evil empire, the Soviet Union, from Muslim lands in the 1980's; US forces ejected the fascists from Northern Africa in WWII, freeing countless Muslim nations and millions of Muslims from sure totalitarianism; post WWI we were offered mandates for colonial stakes throughout the Muslim Ottoman Empire but rejected such colonization despite our Western ally's inability to do the same. The United States boasts one of the largest populations of FREE peoples of Near East descent, second only in percentages to Israel whose Kanessa in real numbers has more freely elected Arab representatives then all other Middle Eastern states ... combined.

Roughly one third of the Arab world is illiterate, does anyone think these historical facts are circulated in print throughout those lands? Perhaps our president should complete his education in law with one in history, and then articulate it at opportune moments such as this speech so as to educate those with whom he is attempting to"reach a new understanding."

He spoke NOTHING of democratization to his intended audience even though the legal status of both stoning and slavery are found exclusively among Arab nations ... people for whom when you call them "medieval" you are referring to their hay day of enlightenment.

And let me add this about Israel ... among other demands for that tiny democracy, our president has insisted that all settlements in the West bank cease and desist no later then July 2009. I'd say that's strong language coming from a man whose current residence sits on Piscataway Tribe land ... but that's just me.