American Hostages in Iran (Released the day Reagan took office)
Charles Krauthammer has a great piece in today's Washington Post. Obama told us in his inaugural address, and the Muslim world in his first television interview as president, that we need to come together, hit the reset button and start our relationship anew, or rather, bring it back to the golden age of "20 or 30 years ago." Hello Jimmy Carter...
Is this accurate?
Is it "new" to acknowledge Muslim interests and show respect to the Muslim world? Obama doesn't just think so, he said so again to millions in his al-Arabiya interview, insisting on the need to "restore" the "same respect and partnership that America had with the Muslim world as recently as 20 or 30 years ago."
Astonishing. In these most recent 20 years -- the alleged winter of our disrespect of the Islamic world -- America did not just respect Muslims, it bled for them. It engaged in five military campaigns, every one of which involved -- and resulted in -- the liberation of a Muslim people: Bosnia, Kosovo, Kuwait, Afghanistan and Iraq.
The two Balkan interventions -- as well as the failed 1992-93 Somalia intervention to feed starving African Muslims (43 Americans were killed) -- were humanitarian exercises of the highest order, there being no significant U.S. strategic interest at stake. In these 20 years, this nation has done more for suffering and oppressed Muslims than any nation, Muslim or non-Muslim, anywhere on Earth. Why are we apologizing?
Seems that if an apology is in order, it should be the other way around.
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