Following up on my last post, I see that David Cameron actually is reacting to ISIS the way right-wingers think Obama is reacting to ISIS:
Britain resisted pressure on Sunday to join the United States in announcing air strikes against Islamic State after the militant group beheaded David Haines, a British hostage, and threatened to kill another Briton."Cautious"! "Sensitivities"! And yet you'd know none of this from Fox News, which covers Cameron's response to the killing of Haines with the red-meat headline "British PM David Cameron Says He Will 'Drain This Poison' After Latest ISIS Beheading Video."
Speaking after chairing a meeting of the government's COBR emergency-response committee in London, Prime Minister David Cameron said his government was battling IS on numerous fronts but made clear it was not, for now, launching air strikes....
Britain was quick to join U.S. military action in Afghanistan and Iraq. But a war-weary public and parliament's rejection last year of air strikes on Syria have made Cameron cautious. Complicating his decision are the sensitivities surrounding Scotland's independence referendum on Thursday....
And remember how the right responded when Obama said this?
Now let's make two things clear: ISIL is not "Islamic." No religion condones the killing of innocents. And the vast majority of ISIL's victims have been Muslim.Here was Charles Krauthammer's patronizing reaction on Fox on September 10:
There's ... something both patronizing and ridiculous for a Western Christian to be telling the Muslim world what exactly their religion is about. Particularly a religion with a 1400 year distinguished history of theological exegesis. I didn't know Obama was an Islamic scholar but it's probably what he does when it's raining and he can't be playing golf.Playing golf! Har har har! Only an idiot like Obama would say that ISIS isn't Islamic!
Um, here's David Cameron talking about ISIS today:
"They boast of their brutality; they claim to do this in the name of Islam. That is nonsense. Islam is a religion of peace. They are not Muslims, they are monsters.”But remember, Cameron's a tough poison-drainer, and Obama wears mom jeans.
4 comments:
Yeah but you never saw Cameron in a beige suit.
As I always say, you have to cut them a little slack. If we'd just let them come out and say "n!&&@r" they wouldn't have to say all this stupid-sounding crap.
P.S.:
"There's ... something both patronizing and ridiculous for a Western Christian to be telling the Muslim world what exactly their religion is about."
Unless of course the Western Christian is a white conservative who hasn't been out of Alabama in his life and wants to bomb all the ragheads like Krauthammer does. Then it's totally cool.
Cameron, is white.
Obama, is black.
End of story.
So, ditto on what Rick said above.
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