Krauthammer on Cairo speech: Abstract, vapid & self absorbed
By Tom Chambers • 10:40 p.m. June 4, 2009 • 0 Comments • 0 Trackbacks
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Charles Krauthammer nails President Obama on his speech in Cairo earlier today.
The columnist says the speech had no real impact in terms of policy — mainly because it was “exceedingly weak on Iran.”
But in terms of philosophy, Krauthammer goes after the president for being so apologetic and touting moral equivalence between the Muslim world and the West.
He really gets going when it comes to what Krauthammer called an “oblique reference to oppression” of women.
On the one hand you’ve got a university somewhere where the womens lacrosse team is not getting the full funding under Title IX. On the other hand you’ve got women beaten in the street in Saudi Arabia for showing an ankle or stoned for adultery in Iran. It’s not exactly morally equivalent.
Amen.