◼ So Much for Obama's 'Reset' With Muslims - Newser.com
Back in 2009, Barack Obama gave a much-lauded speech in Cairo promising a "new beginning" between the US and the Muslim world, based on "mutual respect." Charles Krauthammer found that "curious, as over the previous 20 years, America had six times committed its military forces on behalf of oppressed Muslims," he writes in the Washington Post. "But no matter. Obama had come to remonstrate and restrain the hyperpower." Ever since, we've seen "policies of accommodation and concession" designed to win Muslim hearts and minds.
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| Muslim protesters burn an American flag during a protest against an anti-Islam film produced in the United States in Makassar, South Sulawesi province, Indonesia, Sept, 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Abbas Sandji) |
◼ Obama’s Shaky Libya Narrative - Eli Lake/Daily Beast
Ten days after the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, the White House’s official story about the incident appears to be falling apart.
◼ AP: Benghazi consulate attack was led by 50 masked men using “military tactics”
