Monday, December 7, 2015

What will it take for Obama to admit this is Islamic terrorism?

nypost.com ^ | Michael Goodwin 

Always half-hearted about the war on terror, the President's stubborn refusal to call the atrocity in Paris "Islamic terrorism" has put him out of step with events. In listless, vapid remarks, he called the death of 130 innocent victims a "setback," and salted the wound by insisting that climate change is a greater threat.
And now, with the slaughter in San Bernardino showing Islamic State tentacles reaching America, the president's continuing unwillingness to admit the truth puts him even further outside the mainstream of American society and law enforcement.
By closing his mind to facts, Obama is making himself a denier.
America is at war and the Commander in Chief isn't even trying to lead from behind anymore. He's gone AWOL at the worst possible time.
His consistent failure to acknowledge the roots of Islam in the jihadist death cult always was peculiar. He insisted that the religion not be defined by those who hijacked it, but with the barbarism of Islamic State and the growing number of lethal attacks, his intransigence is downright weird. What's the harm of admitting a truth the whole world sees?
Obama's attempts to obscure the connection to Islam in Wednesday's massacre is leaving a leadership vacuum and fanning America's fears.
Soon after the California shootings, but before the facts were known about casualties, the president saddled up his favorite hobby horse.
Admitting that "we don't know that much yet," he still knew the solution--gun control. "The one thing we do know is that we have a pattern of mass shootings that have no parallel anywhere in the world," he told CBS Wednesday afternoon.
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