Charles Krauthammer has written a breathtakingly great article that shows the folly at the heart of President Obama’s apologist approach to the Muslim world. Obama says he seeks a return to “the same respect and partnership that America had with the Muslim world as recently as 20 or 30 years ago.”

Krauthammer writes:

• In these most recent 20 years – the alleged winter of our disrespect of the Islamic world – America did not just respect Muslims, it bled for them. It engaged in five military campaigns, every one of which involved – and resulted in – the liberation of a Muslim people: Bosnia, Kosovo, Kuwait, Afghanistan and Iraq.
• The two Balkan interventions – as well as the failed 1992-93 Somali intervention to feed starving African Muslims (43 Americans were killed) – were humanitarian exercises of the highest order, there being no significant US strategic interest at stake. In these 20 years, this nation has done more for suffering and oppressed Muslims than any nation, Muslim or non-Muslim, anywhere on earth. Why are we apologizing?

He adds:

• George Bush went to the Islamic Center in Washington six days after 9/11, when the fires of Ground Zero were still smoldering, to declare “Islam is peace,” to extend fellowship and friendship to Muslims, to insist that Americans treat them with respect and generosity of spirit.
  And America listened. In these seven years since 9/11 – seven years during which thousands of Muslims rioted all over the world (resulting in the death of more than 100) to avenge a bunch of cartoons – there’s not been a single anti-Muslim riot in the United States to avenge the greatest massacre in US history. On the contrary. In its aftermath, we elected our first Muslim member of Congress and our first president of Muslim parentage.

Well said that man.  It is well worth reading in full.