Sunday, July 27, 2008
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Jeff Jacoby: Missing from that Berlin speech - 'BARACK OBAMA had ample reason to recall the Berlin Airlift of 1948 during his dramatic speech in the German capital last week. The airlift was an early and critical success for the West in the Cold War, with clear relevance to our own time, the war in Iraq, and the free world's conflict with radical Islam. But having reached back 60 years to that pivotal hour of American leadership, Obama proceeded to draw from it exactly the wrong lessons...'
Thank you! There are many problems with his speech and the revisionist way in which he shaped the Airlift is just one. Time and again he goes out of his way to distance himself from America's historical accomplishments, while still finding time to mention "torture", and "cars in Boston" being responsible for global weather conditions. He possesses a dangerous combination of historical ignorance and misplaced guilt for the times America took hard but necessary actions in the World (many times on our own with no help from the "global community").
Notice also how in his speech he says that the terrorists on 9/11 killed "thousands from all over the globe on American soil." While it is true that people from many nations died on that day, I believe of the roughly 3,000 deaths approximately 90% or so were American citizens. Why is it that Obama appears to think it's offensive to suggest 9/11 was an American tragedy (the hijackers could have attacked the U.N. but chose not to.)
"the hijackers could have attacked the U.N. but chose not to."
Thats because the U.N. has already been hijacked by islamofascists.
Way to add to the conversation.
Daoud, your head is stuck deep in the sand again.
You deny that the United Nations has been hijacked by people who turn a blind eye to current day slavery in Muslim Sudan?
Infact muslim Sudan was elected to the "UN Human Rights Commission" despite Sudans engaging in ethnic cleansing in Darfur.
The Commission was replaced by the Council.
"Council's position on Israel
The UN Human Rights Council, like its predecessor the UN Human Rights Commission, has been criticised by mainly Western countries for focusing too much on Israel.[19]
By April 2007, the Council had passed nine resolutions condemning Israel, the only country which it had specifically condemned.[20][21]
By comparison, toward Sudan, a country with severe human rights abuses in Darfur as documented by the Council's work groups, it has only expressed "deep concern."[20]"
In the last two days dozens of people have died in Iraq, India, Turkey thanks to relgion that the U.N. has been hijacked by.
Fatah and Hezbullah are at it again too - thankfully they are eating their own.
Over to you Daoud.
Letter to Boston Globe Editor
Dear Editor,
Jacoby complains in "Missing from that Berlin speech" (July 27, 2008) that Obama did not mention Harry Truman during his speech in Berlin, but Obama probably deserves a pass on this omission. In 1911 in a letter to his future wife, Elizabeth (Bess) Virginia Wallace, Truman wrote:
While Truman issued Executive Order 9981 on July 26, 1948 to end racial segregation in the US military, he was probably responding to the need for African American votes in the upcoming election.
Because Truman also needed Jewish electoral and financial support to win, he put into place the first of a series of misguided US foreign policy decisions practically guaranteed to engender hatred against the USA when he supported the establishment of the State of Israel by white Central and Eastern European colonists against the democratic will of the majority native Palestinian population.
By Truman's standards Palestinians almost certainly simply constituted another class of niggers, about whom Truman did not have to be concerned because unlike African Americans they did not vote in US elections.
Because Jacoby scare-mongers Islamofascism just as Neoconservative policy-makers scare-mongered Iraqi WMDs, Jacoby is concerned that Obama might have legitimate skepticism about Truman and some of his policies just as he opposed Bush's war against Iraq. We should all be glad if President Obama turns out to be no Harry Truman.
Joachim Martillo
Boston, MA 02126-2813