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Barack Obama Tiptoes Around the Threat of Terrorism
Obama’s failure to acknowledge the continued terrorist threat makes the United States look weak
Source: Mary Kate Cary, US News & World Report, 10-11-12
“I’ve come here to Cairo to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world,” President Barack Obama said in 2009, “one based on mutual interest and mutual respect.” He went on to list the tensions between America and the Muslim world he sought to relieve—yet at the latest meeting of the U.N. General Assembly, he skipped meeting with any of his fellow world leaders for a taping of The View. It’s hard to believe those snubbed leaders, who included Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu, think the president is actually relieving any tensions in the Middle East.
President Obama doesn’t put much time into working the phones or flying to funerals or inviting world leaders for weekends at Camp David, unlike some of his predecessors. He puts more value on the words in a speech—because to him, soaring rhetoric is the end, not the means to an end….READ MORE
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