President Obama and Whig History
by Ross Douthat
FEBRUARY 17, 2015 3:47 PM
http://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/17/president-obama-and-whig-history/?comments#permid=14167513
This whole prayer breakfast/Crusades hype is a prima example how pundits like Douthat and others justify their existance to over-intellectualize, to the point of the rediculous, simple, and more that likely well meaning comments by Obama: don't judge all Moslems (or minorities in general) too harshly, for "we" (yes, Conservatives, Obama is a Christian), the judeo-christian countries have our own baggage. The intent was simply to calm the waves of irrational indiscriminate "reprisal" for the attrocities of a miniscule minority. The reference to "Crusades" is not unique to Obama, and I don't remember a long intellectual debate when Bush called from a "Crusade".
The use of "Crusades" may have been clumsy, but in effect, most Western leaders who joined the march in Paris, with the embarrassing absence of a meaningful representative from the US, made the same point, both during the Paris march and later, back in their respective homes.
The use of "Crusades" may have been clumsy, but in effect, most Western leaders who joined the march in Paris, with the embarrassing absence of a meaningful representative from the US, made the same point, both during the Paris march and later, back in their respective homes.
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