An American president embarking on a foreign policy based on the assumption that we have done something to earn the hatred of our jihadi enemies is just asking for a Jimmy Carter Soviet invasion of Afghanistan level of disillusionment.
Jeff Jacoby agrees:
It wasn't until the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979 that Carter finally woke up to his naiveté. Moscow's brutal aggression "made a more dramatic change in my opinion of what the Soviets' ultimate goals are," he admitted, "than anything they've done in the previous time that I've been in office."
Carter's failure to understand the threat posed by the Soviet Empire had costly consequences for America and the world. Will that pattern now be repeated with Barack Obama and the threat from radical Islam?
Our Left believes you only make peace with enemies. Our enemies believe that enemies are for killing--who else would you kill? I mean, other than involuntary martyrs from among your friends of course.
How can we be anything but disappointed in our enemy's reaction to our president's extended hand?
