Fiasco!

Submitted by Kanaan (United States), Sep 13, 2010 at 13:23

"If I knew that this would happen, that this would cause this kind of pain, I wouldn't have done it," says Imam Rauf, the 'mastermind' behind the Ground Zero Mosque international diplomatic fiasco. Right there, the Imam confesses to his abject incompetence as a diplomat, his complete cluelessness as to both American hearts and minds, and the emotions of war.

Yet having confessed that his powers of foresight are worthless, Imam asks us to put our faith in his worthless counsel: "If we move from that location, the story will be that the radicals have taken over the discourse." Why should anyone listen to anything the Imam predicts now?

Note that Imam is employing the noxious 'fait accompli' negotiation tactic--while he plays the terror card! Peacemaker my ykw!

Muslim-American relations grow worse by the day. I fear we haven't seen anything near the worst. The religion of Islam is now the main attraction in a circus. Their faith is burlesqued, their Holy Book reduced to a prop in a clown show. Muslim 'leaders' are reduced to warning us that practitioners of their allegedly 'peaceful' religion are prone to violent rage, readily recruited by Al Qaida, so we should suppress American free speech. Should we also raise the terror alert? They are telling us that we can't let Muslims onto airplanes. Do they still not get it? They don't understand Americans. They can't predict our reactions. They don't know what they are doing.

What a mess! If a Samurai served his master as poorly as Imam Rauf has served Ummah, he'd commit seppuku. The Imam has disgraced himself, conjuring a no-win scenario out of nothing but the thick fog of his own stupidity. The honorable thing for the Imam is to disappear in disgrace. And take his idiotic Cordoba House with him.

Of course, the Imam hasn't had much help. I seriously suspect that Mayor Bloomberg may have a brain tumor, or some private medical news that's flooding his judgement with end-of-life emotions. (That's not a joke. More than once recently, Bloomberg has framed public issues in terms of his own mortality.) As for Obama, we can officially call him 'The President From Another Planet.' POTUS just doesn't get the American people whom he is supposedly governing.

In the future, Islamic diplomats should widen their circle of social contacts beyond the leftist cucumber-and-brie set. They should start with Sarah Palin. If Cordoba had followed Palin's advice from the outset, this mess would never have gotten out of hand. Weeks before POTUS ykw'ed things up with his spaced out lecture about the exercise of constitutional rights regardless of wisdom (a two-edged sword, ya think, POTUS?), Palin absolutely nailed it: the Ground Zero Mosque is an "unnecessary provocation."

Way ahead of the curve, Palin has been the wisest, and shown the fastest reflexes. POTUS has played this like a tourist--from outer space!

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