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The text is here.Gateway Pundit notes, "In a surprise move, Obama didn't apologize for America."
But he did deal the moral relativism card:
We live in a world of competing beliefs and claims about what is true. It's a world of varied religions and cultures and forms of government. In such a world, it's all too rare for a struggle to emerge that speaks to something universal about humanity.Damn!
The Second World War did that. No man who shed blood or lost a brother would say that war is good. But all know that this war was essential. For what we faced in Nazi totalitarianism was not just a battle of competing interests. It was a competing vision of humanity. Nazi ideology sought to subjugate and humiliate and exterminate. It perpetrated murder on a massive scale, fueled by a hatred of those who were deemed different and therefore inferior. It was evil.
The nations that joined together to defeat Hitler's Reich were not perfect. They had made their share of mistakes, had not always agreed with one another on every issue. But whatever God we prayed to, whatever our differences, we knew that the evil we faced had to be stopped. Citizens of all faiths and of no faith came to believe that we could not remain as bystanders to the savage perpetration of death and destruction. And so we joined and sent our sons to fight and often die so that men and women they never met might know what it is to be free.
America's "not perfect"? The American culture of liberty is just another "competing belief" about what is true in the world? I'm sure Thomas Jefferson might have a quibble with that!
EagleWingz08, a commenter at Gateway Pundit, is underwhelmed:
Given the tenor of the speech, and how Obama claims that it was a miracle it succeeded, one must posit the belief, as with Obama's take on the surge for the past four years, that if he were in the Oval Office when the plans for D-Day were being hashed out, he would have rejected them as too improbable and impossible to succeed. How we would have retaken Europe under a President Obama is a mystery that gets me sick even to consider.Well, it's one more notch for "Obama's message of weakness" (via Mark Steyn at Memeorandum).
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Obama’s recent speeches feature a reluctant nod to our American heroes and - really, do we have to go back to “Algebra “ to find significant Islamic contributions to society - when a cursory glance at Jewish contributions are too numerous to list.
Combined with our current recession, the United States, thanks to Obama’s obsequious posture to the Middle East, non-action in N.K., deferring to the limpid UN, is now as vulnerable to a world war potential as we were after the Great Depression. We are also just as inactive in response to aggressive foreign nations as we were before the Second World War. Just as then, we have a war-weary democratic congress, but, now, the world recognizes us as having a dangerously unprepared president. If this is not an invitation to WWIII then I don’t know what is. The Obama Administration in its self-important fantasy, is too preoccupied with bankrupting the U.S. with well-intentioned infrastructure projects to recognize our distant peril. Just as in pre-WWII conditions, two theaters of war on opposite sides of the U.S. are hiding their efforts in plain view: North Korea and Iran are sizing us up for an all out war. Obama is busy with taking points on the Holy Koran.
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