How does this article support the"Obama is a Muslim" trope? His point is that some of the Muslim world might view Obama as an apostate because of his parentage, over which he had no control, and his renunciation of Islam and conversion to Christianity, which he did.
"But of all the well-meaning desires projected on Senator Obama, the hope that he would decisively improve relations with the world’s Muslims is the least realistic."
Eh, 7 years in, the fear that Muslim countries would strike a personal beef or pose a direct to Obama, as a result of his parentage, has not become real, as far as I have heard.
And I've heard of no US domestic Muslims attempting any assassination.
It seems that Muslims are not as irrationally bloodthirsty as many imagine.
Luttwak is a welcome guest of italian TV talk shows because: (a) he speaks Italian and (b) he has a usually different, and often interesting, point of view. Even if one does not like its macho-neocon slant, he is a rather smart guy.
c) he was considered the unofficial speaker for NATO in Italy in the '70s and '80s, saying the outrageous things others couldn't say and making local "Atlanticist" politicians look moderate in comparison.
A good read. Having never heard of the man he seems like an extraordinarily successful variant of the self-aggrandising “arm-chair general” found in pubs throughout the world. Right down to the highly questionable claims to have seen military action. This and other of the claims could certainly have been fact checked here. It comes across as though the journalist didn’t want to offend him by showing up the obvious lies.
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[ 14.4 ms ] story [ 42.0 ms ] thread"But of all the well-meaning desires projected on Senator Obama, the hope that he would decisively improve relations with the world’s Muslims is the least realistic."
He certainly had that right.
And I've heard of no US domestic Muslims attempting any assassination.
It seems that Muslims are not as irrationally bloodthirsty as many imagine.