Welcome Back, Carter
By Ann Coulter
Well, I'm glad that's over! Now that our silver-tongued
president has gone to Cairo to soothe Muslims' hurt feelings, they love us
again! Muslims in Pakistan expressed their appreciation for President Barack
Obama's speech by bombing a fancy hotel in Peshawar this week.
Operating on the liberal premise that what Arabs really respect is weakness,
Obama listed, incorrectly, Muslims' historical contributions to mankind, such as
algebra (actually that was the ancient Babylonians), the compass (that was the
Chinese), pens (the Chinese again) and medical discoveries (huh?).
But why be picky? All these inventions came in mighty handy on Sept. 11, 2001!
Thanks, Muslims!!
Obama bravely told the Cairo audience that 9/11 was a very nasty thing for
Muslims to do to us, but on the other hand, they are victims of colonization.
Except we didn't colonize them. The French and the British did. So why are Arabs
flying planes into our buildings and not the Arc de Triomphe? (And gosh, haven't
the Arabs done a lot with the Middle East since the French and the British
left!)
In another sharks-to-kittens comparison, Obama said, "Now let me be clear,
issues of women's equality are by no means simply an issue for Islam." No, he
said, "the struggle for women's equality continues in many aspects of American
life."
So on one hand, 12-year-old girls are stoned to death for the crime of being
raped in Muslim countries. But on the other hand, we still don't have enough
female firefighters here in America.
Delusionally, Obama bragged about his multiculti worldview, saying, "I reject
the view of some in the West that a woman who chooses to cover her hair is
somehow less equal." In Saudi Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan and other Muslim
countries, women "choose" to cover their heads on pain of losing them.
Obama rolled out the crucial liberal talking point against America's invasion of
Iraq, saying Iraq was a "war of convenience," while Afghanistan was a "war of
necessity." Liberals cling to this nonsense doggerel as a shield against their
hypocrisy on Iraq. Either both wars were wars of necessity or both wars were
wars of choice.
Neither Iraq nor Afghanistan -- nor any country -- attacked us on 9/11. Both
Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as many other Muslim countries, were sheltering
those associated with the terrorists who did attack us on 9/11 -- and who hoped
to attack us again.
The truth is, all wars are wars of choice, including the Revolutionary War, the
Civil War, both World Wars, the Korean and Vietnam Wars, the Gulf War, and the
wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. OK, maybe the war on teen obesity is a war of
convenience, but that's the only one I can think of.
The modern Democrat Party chooses -- really chooses, not like Saudi women
"choosing" to wear hijabs -- to fight no wars. But the Democrats couldn't say
that immediately after 9/11, so they pretended to support the war in Afghanistan
and then had to spend the next 7 1/2 years trying to come up with a distinction
between Afghanistan and Iraq.
Maybe next they can tell us why fighting Hitler -- who never invaded the U.S.
and had no plans to do so -- was a "necessity" in a way that fighting Saddam
wasn't. (Obama on Hitler: "Nazi ideology sought to subjugate, humiliate and
exterminate. It perpetrated murder on a massive scale." Whereas Saddam Hussein
was just messing with the Kuwaitis, Kurds and Shiites.)
Meanwhile, Muslims throughout the Middle East are yearning for their own Saddam
Husseins to be taken out by U.S. invaders so they can be liberated, too. (Then
we'll see how many women -- outside of an American college campus -- "choose" to
wear hijabs.) The war-of-choice/war-of-necessity point must be as mystifying to
a Muslim audience as a discussion of gay marriage.
Arabs aren't afraid of us; they're afraid of Iran. But our aspiring Jimmy Carter
had no tough words for Iran. To the contrary, in Cairo, Obama endorsed Iran's
quest for nuclear "power," while attacking -- brace yourself --
America
for helping remove Iranian loon Mohammad Mossadegh.
The CIA's taking out Mossadegh was probably the greatest thing that agency ever
did. This was back in 1953, before it became a collection of lawyers and
paper-pushers.
Mossadegh was as crazy as a March hare (which is really saying something when
your competition is Moammar Gadhafi, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and Saddam
Hussein). He gave interviews lying in bed in pink pajamas. He wept, he fainted,
and he set his nation on a path of permanent impoverishment by "nationalizing"
the oil wells, where they sat idle after the British companies that knew how to
operate them pulled out.
But he was earthy and hated the British, so
left-wing academics adored Mossadegh
True, Mossadegh had been "elected" by the Iranian parliament -- but only in the
chaos following the assassination of the sitting prime minister.
In short order, the shah dismissed this clown, but Mossadegh refused to step
down, so the CIA forcibly removed him and allowed the shah's choice to assume
the office. This "coup," as liberal academics term it, was approved by liberals'
favorite Republican president, Dwight Eisenhower, and supported by such
ponderous liberal blowhards as John Foster Dulles.
For Obama to be apologizing for one of the CIA's greatest accomplishments isn't
just crazy, it's Ramsey Clark crazy.
Obama also said that it was unfair that "some countries have weapons that others
do not" and proclaimed that "any nation -- including Iran -- should have the
right to access peaceful nuclear power if it complies with its responsibilities
under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty."
Wait -- how about us? If a fanatical holocaust denier with messianic delusions
can have nuclear power, can't the U.S. at least build one nuclear power plant
every 30 years?
I'm sure Iran's compliance will be policed as well as North Korea's was. Clinton
struck a much-heralded "peace deal" with North Korea in 1994, giving them $4
billion to construct nuclear facilities and 500,000 tons of fuel oil in return
for a promise that they wouldn't build nuclear weapons. The ink wasn't dry
before the North Koreans began feverishly building nukes.
But back to Iran, what precisely do Iranians need nuclear power for, again?
They're not exactly a manufacturing powerhouse. Iran is a primitive nation in
the middle of a desert that happens to sit on top of a large percentage of the
world's oil and gas reserves. That's not enough oil and gas to run household
fans?
Obama's "I'm OK, You're OK" speech would be hilarious, if it weren't so
terrifying.
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