the NYT hammers O's failed MidEast Policy

[DrLeftover]

The Mirage of Political Islam
JUNE 3, 2014

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As the Obama team prepared to end the wars of the Bush administration, it felt a need for friends in the Arab world. So the administration bought into the fallacy of “moderate” political Islam.

Had they not fallen for the Islamists’ lip service to democracy, they might have paid more attention to the new political force that sparked the Arab Spring: democratic secularism. Regrettably, the United States failed to recognize the need to strengthen the Muslim world’s secular democratic parties and empower their supporters, who want to build a society based on tolerance, moderation, the rule of law, women’s rights and constitutional freedoms. Just as America worked to stop the spread of Communism after World War II, the Obama administration could have invested in civil society groups and secular democratic parties in the Muslim world.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/04/opinion/the-mirage-of-political-islam.html?hpw&rref=opinion


You will, of course, notice that this is from the flagship house organ of the Democratic Party and NOT those disgusting haters at Fox.