Krauthammer Blasts Obama’s “Insane” View of the World, Terrorism. Video. Fox News Insider, December 7, 2015. YouTube. Also at Real Clear Politics.
RCP Transcript:
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: I think the reason Obama had to give that speech, and you really have to ask yourself what did he achieve, that he was told he had to show that he thinks this is a problem. His problem since the day he took office, he never wanted to fight the war on terror. He abolished the term. I think deep down he believes the war on terror was a gross overreach.
He said
that in his speeches when he went abroad in 2009. He talked about America
overreacting. And in a sense that we have provoked this. He says, if you talk
about the Muslims in a bad way, that recruits for ISIS. Guantanamo is a
recruiter for ISIS. When the fact is that the cruelty and the savagery and the
ideology is a recruiter for ISIS. But he locates the origin of all that
recruiting in what we do and he thinks, therefore, the cure is to do as little
as possible. It’s an insane strategic view of the world, but he actually holds
it. And I think that’s why the American people are so scared. He’s our leader
and he believes that?
