Charles Krauthammer critiques BHO's Cairo Speech

In "Hovering on High: Obama Surveys the World" Mr. Krauthammer notes the "condescension", "hunger for applause" and "willingness to distort history for political effect. ..." that BHO uses in his attempt to placate the Muslim world. It is an approach that will not work for long, if at all.

A couple of important points, the first on his comparison of women's rights:


"...On the one hand, there certainly is some American university where the women's softball team has received insufficient Title IX funds -- while, on the other hand, Saudi women showing ankle are beaten in the street, Afghan school girls have acid thrown in their faces, and Iranian women are publicly stoned to death for adultery. (Gays, as well -- but then again we have Prop 8.) We all have our shortcomings, our national foibles. Who's to judge?

That's the problem with Obama's transcultural evenhandedness. It gives the veneer of professorial sophistication to the most simple-minded observation: Of course there are rights and wrongs in all human affairs. Our species is a fallen one. But that doesn't mean that these rights and wrongs are of equal weight."


and the second is his conlusion, the second half of which I think we all need to be sensitive to (remember Rev. Wright, who has appeared again this week!):


"Distorting history is not truth-telling, but the telling of soft lies. Creating false equivalencies is not moral leadership, but moral abdication. And hovering above it all, above country and history, is a sign not of transcendence but of a disturbing ambivalence toward one's own country."


Do we want the President to be ambivalent? Have we ever had an ambivalent President? Where will this lead the country? These are questions we all must resolve within ourselves to make sure we are not enablers of an incorrect tack for this great country.

Read the whole column. An interesting perspective.