"And, you know, if you look at world history, whenever people are desperate, when people are lacking food, when people are not able to take care of their families- that's when ideologies arise that are dangerous." President Obama in interview shown on CBS show This Morning ,Friday, December 4th 2015.
The president was talking about the relationship between the rise of radical Islam and climate change. I have no doubt he believes this and most of those who have voted for him will shake their heads in ascent at this pearl of wisdom, but it would have been nice to hear a follow up question from Norah O'Donnell when he said it. I don't think that it's asking too much to have heard from Norah something like- " Can you site an example?"
For the life of me ,I can't think of any. I doubt if he could either. Doubtless there are many examples of famines due to droughts and other unfortunate weather related phenomena causing mass migrations, riots, and other upheavals, but what dangerous ideologies have sprung from hunger? Again, I just can't come up with anything. I challenge anyone to justify his statement.
What is supremely dangerous is having a president in times like this who doesn't understand the enemy. He's proven in every pronouncement he's made on the subject that he doesn't understand them, is unaware of what motivates them, and doesn't know how to fight them. He'd rather battle domestic foes, namely Republicans in congress. He'd rather make grand gestures and grand speeches in opposition to global warming. Meanwhile the actions he proposes to fight it would be as ineffective and futile as his efforts to " contain " ISIS. If there is any relationship between the battle against Islamic terrorism and climate change it is that alone.
The president was talking about the relationship between the rise of radical Islam and climate change. I have no doubt he believes this and most of those who have voted for him will shake their heads in ascent at this pearl of wisdom, but it would have been nice to hear a follow up question from Norah O'Donnell when he said it. I don't think that it's asking too much to have heard from Norah something like- " Can you site an example?"
For the life of me ,I can't think of any. I doubt if he could either. Doubtless there are many examples of famines due to droughts and other unfortunate weather related phenomena causing mass migrations, riots, and other upheavals, but what dangerous ideologies have sprung from hunger? Again, I just can't come up with anything. I challenge anyone to justify his statement.
What is supremely dangerous is having a president in times like this who doesn't understand the enemy. He's proven in every pronouncement he's made on the subject that he doesn't understand them, is unaware of what motivates them, and doesn't know how to fight them. He'd rather battle domestic foes, namely Republicans in congress. He'd rather make grand gestures and grand speeches in opposition to global warming. Meanwhile the actions he proposes to fight it would be as ineffective and futile as his efforts to " contain " ISIS. If there is any relationship between the battle against Islamic terrorism and climate change it is that alone.
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