Prior to, during, and in the aftermath of that election, the Obama administration kept asserting that it would negotiate with any leader to emerge. Well, that’s about the only issue on which that administration has been true to its word. Since then, it has been conducting pointless, fruitless meetings with Iranian regime representatives, in order to persuade them not to enrich uranium for military purposes.
FP: How are Obama and Carter the same? Who is worse in your view?
Blum: What they mainly have in common is a dim view of American power, greatness, and exceptionalism. They also share an affinity for — even a romanticizing of — the Third World, and believe that if it weren’t for countries like the United States and Israel, everybody in the world would be happily prospering and free of racism. They also both believe that the way to an enemy’s heart is through appeasement.
I think that Obama is worse, because one could argue that during the Carter presidency, there had not yet been a precedent of radical Islamic regimes on which to base American policy. Obama doesn’t have that excuse. And so willfully blind (to use Andy McCarthy’s expression) has he been in relation to America’s enemies that it causes me to question whether he isn’t, in fact, actually on their side.
FP: So tell us more specifically about what your book is about. What is the main argument?
Blum: The main argument of the book is that American appeasement of its enemies has disastrous consequences. The worse possible attitude that a US president can have is to “understand” why others hate his country. This conveys the message that they are right to harbor such feelings. It also perpetuates a false and dangerous notion that the cultures, ideologies, and religions of others would miraculously change if only countries like the United States and Israel would alter their own behavior. This is nonsense that has been proven, time and again, to have no basis whatsoever in reality. Enemies do not need to be courted and cajoled; they need to be defeated.
FP: What do you hope your book will help achieve?
Blum: I hope it will shed light on the situation in the Middle East today, and why it is crucial for there to be an American administration that not only believes in the superiority of Western values — which include political, social, religious, sexual, economic, and ideological freedom — but believes in the need to fight for them, not view them as some kind of multicultural choice, equal to all others.
FP: What if Obama gets in for a second term?
Blum: Though a distinct possibility, it would be a disaster. Not only will he finish off the American economy through his socialist policies, but he will destroy any modicum of morale the country has left. Just as he won’t let small business owners take credit for their hard work and successes, he won’t allow America to take credit for being a great and superior nation. Where Israel is concerned, it will also be a tragedy if he is reelected. He has been as hostile to Israel during his presidency as he has been apologetic towards Israel’s enemies.
FP: Ruthie Blum, thank you for joining Frontpage Interview.
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Wonderful. A breath of fresh air.
Ruthie Blum speaks from my heart. Thank you for this excellent interview, and preview of my next book purchase.
jimmy carter, WORST US PRESIDENT EVER.
As a spiteful America hater, Jimmy can't forgive the American people for kicking his socialist ass out of the White House.
In the liberal mind – poor behavior is rewarded and humanity oppressed. Liberals think giving incentives will change behaviors when in fact it has the opposite effect.
Liberals are learning challenged.
Ruthie, we need more courageous people like you to voice the truth and to stand for what you believe. Thank you and God bless America/Israel!
"It also perpetuates a false and dangerous notion that the cultures, ideologies, and religions of others would miraculously change if only countries like the United States and Israel would alter their own behavior. This is nonsense that has been proven, time and again, to have no basis whatsoever in reality." This is really true. This notion really does pervade vast swathes of the left, both secular and religious. It is possibly the most idiotic notion that they hold.
ArabsMuslims feel empowered by the lack of worldwide leadership willing to confront them. However, Western Society didn't chew it's way to the top of the food chain to simply let these 8th century neanderthals take over the world and launch the bloodiest chapter in human history.A major confrontation is coming.
>> A major confrontation is coming. – That is what I am thinking. The terror business is really just a side show. With Europe allowing so many Muslim's in and so little integration taking place it would seem only a matter of time before things get crazy. The Arab Spring may turn out to be a bad business for Israel, but I doubt it will effect the rest of the world much. The big blow up, I speculate, will come when things get so crazy in Europe that the populations upchuck the current leadership.
We'll get to see radical and violent muslims appear in substantial number at the upcoming democratic convention. Good. Perhaps the very visual expression of these genocidal sociopaths will persuade at least some on the fence voters that carter and obama are anti-semites, appeasers, and cowards. In particular, one can resonably hope that Jewish voters in particular will realize that voting for a party allied with creatures who want Israel detroyed and all Jews on the planet slaughtered is decidedly not in their self-interest.
So, when we don't see radical and violent Muslims appear in substantial numbers at the upcoming democratic convention–and we won't–will you come back here, Marty, and say "Geez, Jim C–I was delusionally wrong?" Will you have the character and intellectual honesty to do that?
Was Occupy Wall Street a delusion? Were the rapes and murder, defacation, and vandalism a delusion? Were the lack of such with Tea Party rallies a delusion? One thing that people understand now, even if some don't is the main stream media is definately not about information; it is about influence. It is NOT dispassionate not neutral. To somehow believe otherwise is naive in the extreme.
Why are police gearing up for — a personal appearance of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck? Do you think they are not aware of OWS antics earlier this year, or were we all delusional about that too?
Fiddler, keep up: he was talking about violent radical Muslims, not OWS.
Why do police gear up for EVERY convention, ever? to keep the peace.
So, yes, unless we see "substantial numbers of violent and radical Muslims" at the convention, I'm calling "delusional."
I'm talking about misinformation in the media. I'll be watching, both now and after more shakes out. I don't trust YOUR media.
Did you hear that the DNC is to start with Muslim Jumah prayers ?
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/dnc-announces-2-h…
It's getting crazier than anyone can imagine.
DNC is doing an outreach to the Muslim Brotherhood.
That will look good right before the 9/11 anniversary.
I wonder who decides that a spate of articles and books shall be reviewed outlining the alleged appeasement strategy of the United States and the UN. I know that these two-bit authors can't crank out these books fast enough for their bosses and commissioners, but the actual instructions/orders to showcase these writings as accredited works of nonfiction is so ham-fisted. It's like watching Larouchians shove a merchandise desk full of wares as it groans and squeaks across a student-union floor.
Where is the tie-in to the Dinesh D'Souza movie?
Ms. Blum says "The worse possible attitude that a US president can have is to 'understand' why others hate his country. This conveys the message that they are right to harbor such feelings."
The worse possible attitude? Leaving that aside for a minute, that this is a book publisher, the glaring phrase is people don't have a right to harbor feelings and need to be reprogrammed with the correct views. That is totalitarian. Worse, it's Stalinist. "Right-Wing" Bohemian my foot. Maybe squatting in a school-less illegal settlement is what satisfies the bohemian part? I don't know.
Not to mention that understanding the enemy has been a time-honored tactic for victory since recorded time–even more so now that the name of the game is intelligence.
I know that these two-bit authors can't crank out these books fast enough for their bosses and commissioners
Oh, I see, it's all about money right. I figured that was one of your first thoughts.
Barack Obama is like a man without a country who somehow took advantage of bad feelings in America as an opportunist and got elected. Now there are an increasing number of folks who have buyer's remorse. They believed the hype and they were convinced (or rather shamed into believing) that we were a big meanie nation, and so throw the baby out with the bathwater when it came to our values. A shamed person, if shamed enough can be made to jettison rightly-held, even superior views, because feeling guilty, feels so "right". It is this confused state that motivates the unthinking into voting for an inept (however charismatic) "leader".
It was the same with Germany when they elected a charismatic leader also. a leader who so admired the religion of Islam. Is it not strange we now see this charismatic leader doing the same .http://www.amazon.com/The-Coming-True-Story-Horror/dp/1469955652/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1346171053&sr=8-1&keywords=the+coming+a+true+story+of+horror
"Where is the tie-in to the Dinesh D'Souza movie?"
So you can't resist in concluding this is all collusion, right? No independent thinkers here!
Certainly no independent thinkers. Not when Frontpage is hyping up several Im Tirtzu donors and their spawn, including Mr. Azrieli, Ms. Blum, Mr. Torossian and John Hagee, all of whom seem to misconstrue the words of Theodor Herzl to mean "bulldoze buildings, sell blood diamonds, buy the press."
Oooh, look at the bill for all that Hasbara:
http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/magazine/major-isr…
It's something you call a couter revolutionary NAKBA.
Happy Eternal Nakba!
You seem to prefer your buds who hijack planes and fly them into buildings, charge $100 per barrel of oil, buy universities and Eurabian press, stone women to death, behead captives…
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Jew hatred,thy name is Schlomotion.
Barack Obama is like a man without a country who somehow took advantage of bad feelings in America as an opportunist and got elected. Now there are an increasing number of folks who have buyer's remorse. They believed the hype and they were convinced (or rather shamed into believing) that we were a big meanie nation, and so throw the baby out with the bathwater when it came to our values. A shamed person, if shamed enough can be made to jettison rightly-held, even superior views, because feeling guilty, feels so "right". It is this confused state that motivates the unthinking into voting for an inept (however charismatic) "leader".
Fundamental change = changing sides.
Let's not forget the theories of Zbigniew Brzezinski. How do we handle terrorism? Well, don't do what George W. Bush proposed: prevention and pre-emption. What you have to do is understand the terrorists and what motivates them. Then you have to do what is necessary to remove their complaints. And what is so terrible about terrorism after all? Didn't we have terror in the sixties in Western Europe and most particularly Ireland? We solved that by diplomacy and bringing both sides together. Same with the Red Brigades in Italy and Germany. So we must do the same thing with Iran. Above all let's not have anything like pre-emption and prevention a la Bush. And so we have a Soviet-Muslim-Chinese break-out across the Middle East and Africa.
"Didn't we have terror in the sixties in Western Europe and most particularly Ireland?"
The question you should ask is: can we really paint with a broad brush and say that all "terrorists" can be understood? Can we really equate people who strap bombs onto themselves and even their children with the IRA, or for heaven's sake Timothy Mc Veigh or Bill Ayers? Really? What motivates a terrorist? What motivated Ayers? Jihad? uh no. Intergenerational hatred of Jews and having "holy" writ that openly supports it? No. Envy? Jealousy? Yes. What comprises hatred? What sustains it and moves it toward justifying murder? Is the guy who shot up the theatre in Aurora the same as a Jihadist? One is crazy you say; and the other? Deceived? Brainwashed? In order to understand someone brainwashed must you become brainwashed yourself? Japan was fanatical and VERY regrettably they had to be humbled. We all wish the lengths we went to were not in place to do that but heaven knows what would have otherwise happened with such people as would commit Hari Keri than to surrender. I think Jihadists are a rare breed of terrorist; they openly embrace death to achieve an end.
Great,080. Let's not defend ourselves against terrorists. Let's put them on the couch or try to hold hands with them and sing "Kumbayah." That's what we should do. There are those who do evil things because they want to,080. We should do all we can to stop terror. Using psychobabble against lunatics like Bin Laden isn't going to help us.
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