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This morning I was reading an Allahpundit post on Hot Air about the left's belief that his election to the presidency would be the death blow to radical jihadism.
The pertinent piece is where Ahhahpundit quotes Andrew Sullivan;
"Consider this hypothetical. It’s November 2008. A young Pakistani Muslim is watching television and sees that this man—Barack Hussein Obama—is the new face of America. In one simple image, America’s soft power has been ratcheted up not a notch, but a logarithm. A brown-skinned man whose father was an African, who grew up in Indonesia and Hawaii, who attended a majority-Muslim school as a boy, is now the alleged enemy. If you wanted the crudest but most effective weapon against the demonization of America that fuels Islamist ideology, Obama’s face gets close. It proves them wrong about what America is in ways no words can."
Therein lies the liberal mindset, which has been stated before - America is the root of the problems in the world. Or, at the very least, America is at the root of all hatred of America. It's our own fault, the reasoning goes.
