{"id":5113,"date":"2009-06-07T16:37:26","date_gmt":"2009-06-07T16:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2009\/06\/victor-davis-hanson-neo-con-on.html"},"modified":"2009-06-07T16:37:26","modified_gmt":"2009-06-07T16:37:26","slug":"victor-davis-hanson-neo-con-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2009\/06\/victor-davis-hanson-neo-con-on.html","title":{"rendered":"Victor Davis Hanson, Neo-Con, on Obama’s Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ObamaCairo.jpg\"<\/span> Victor Davis Hanson<\/a> <\/b><\/i>is one of the most articulate historians of war and the military and, whether you like this neo-con perspective or not, his voice is one to be heard. Moral equivalence<\/i> seems to be the new label for some of Obama’s stances,  though that expression carries with it some hefty critical freight and it needs to be spelled out carefully.<\/p>\n

P<\/span>resident Obama made an earnest effort — as
\nis his way in matters of discord — to split the difference with the
\nIslamic world. His speech essentially amounted to: “We did that, you
\ndid this, tit-for-tat, now we’re even, and can’t we all just get
\nalong?” He should be congratulated for expressing a desire for peace
\nand for gently reminding the Muslim world of the way to reform, even if
\nhe did so while inflating Western sins.<\/p>\n

But the problem with
\nsuch moral equivalence is that it equates things that are, well, not
\nequal — and therefore ends up not being moral at all.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can read the rest of Hanson’s piece through the link above.<\/p>\n

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