The Hand of Appeasement

I don't ordinarily pick up other people's blog pieces in their entirety and re-post them, but this one is just too good to pass up. Melanie Phillips is amazing. I'm linking to the front page of her blog, rather than this specific post, because everything she writes is worth reading.

An aghast Amil Imani, an Iranian who always tells it how it is, registers his profound shock at Obama’s appeasement of the Iranian regime:

Mr. President, the Iranian people do not recognize the Islamic Republic as a country, but call these terrorists occupiers who must leave Iran or to be crushed decisively by hook or by crook. President Obama, what is it that you do not understand? Why is it so difficult for you to comprehend that the Islamic regime is a terrorist entity and the Iranian nation is fed up with them? Nothing less than an overthrow of this bloodthirsty regime is acceptable to millions of Iranians.

...We simply ask you stop appeasing the Islamists all over the world and given them legitimacy... Mr. President, ‘Change, Yes We Can’ was not about changing America to Socialism, Communism or Marxism and appeasement or softening your tone about the Taliban or Muslim extremists. It was not about emptying out our treasury department and writing hot checks as though it belongs to you. Only a person who has no allegiance to the United States constitution would terrorize Americans with anti-American agendas, one after another, and create fear in the hearts of the American people.

Alas, it was only too plain from the moment Obama burst upon the scene that all of this was precisely his agenda. Imani continues:

President Obama, making his first visit to a Muslim nation as president, declared Monday ‘The United States is not and never will be at war with Islam. In fact, our partnership with the Muslim world is critical ... in rolling back a fringe ideology that people of all faiths reject.’

Mr. President, first and foremost, you made a fool out of yourself again. Your ill-advised coziness with the Muslim nations will bring down our nation faster than any foreign enemy. America has never been at war with Islam. On the contrary, it is Islam that has waged a war with the infidels and wants to conquer the world.

And with Obama in the White House, it has its best chance yet of doing so.

It is indeed beyond amazing that a President of the United States can behave with such an embarrassing ignorance of history (the latest such absurdity was that he thinks Islam has helped shape America; as Robert Spencer writes, this is an utter delusion), adolescent naivety (how North Korea and Iran must be splitting their sides at a Commander-in-Chief who thinks if America Bans its own Bomb, they and every other rogue state will follows suit), disloyalty towards his own country (for which he never stops apologising); and suicidal idiocy in grovelling to its enemies.

But then it is beyond amazing that such a man could ever have been elected President in the first place.