That is the interesting theory of Dean Barnett over at Hugh’s place.
So why doesn’t he communicate it? My theory is that he just doesn’t think America is ready to hear it. Whatever the case, I highly doubt his purported difficulties expressing himself lie at the heart of the matter.
I think it might go a bit deeper than even this. To me President Bush is still reeling like the rest of us who believed that we could bring Democracy and Freedom to the ME and everything would start improving. He is probably shaken to his core that groups of people would actually prefer to blow themselves up than to talk and find a compromise. Perhaps he actually believed that Islam was the religion of Peace?
Is it too much to hope for that he, like the rest of us, is slowly realizing that perhaps our problems with Islam run a bit deeper than mere radicals who have “hijacked” Islam? Is he also beginning to wonder at those polls that have even moderate states like Indonesia giving 35% support to Bin Laden, main player in the worst terrorist attack in history?
What does he say if he is coming to that realization? What policies can we change? Is nation building ever going to work when the people who are the foundation of such nations do not accept the idea of nations? Is nation building ever going to work with a people who don’t look at Geographic boundaries as relevant? Islam in a general sense does not recognize geographical boundaries. Furthermore how do we build nations when the raw material, the people, demands we submit to them? Exactly how does President Bush explain that to us, a society that is too interested in watching people chase balls around than to understand our terrific peril?
I am afraid that the speech he must give to us can only come after another grievous attack. At any other time no one would have the time to listen. When we are sitting amongst the rubble wondering who is responsible let’s all make sure we have some mirrors available.
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