re: #102 KDS1

The big problem is that Obama thinks the right way is to “embrace” the islamic world, also by overlooking dangerous actions and aspirations made by the arab-muslim world. The arab world is used to lead and to be led by power and oppresion. Now, that Obama is loosing the strap, they feel like there is no grown up to tell them what to do.

Personally, I see Obama trying to play up the “Not-Bush” angle, thinking that “building bridges” and “hitting the reset button” means overturning everything that Bush accomplished and refraining from utilizing the methods he did to create and cement past alliances. He’s trying to take the iron out of the glove, believing like many of Bush’s critics that the reason America faces so much animosity is not due to differences in ideology, but due to anger over America’s past “misdeeds” and fear of future ones.

Or, long story short, he thinks that the opposite to being Bush is being a pushover.