Friday, February 03, 2006

Slick Willy in the Voice of Jemma

Bill Clinton apologizing for the rude west again. Being cheered by the middle eastern countries for doing it. I wonder if Bill was our first Arab president on top of our first Black president.
Ex-president Bill Clinton is winning high praise throughout the Arab world for his recent comments condemning anti-Muslim bias and urging dialogue with Hamas - with even Iranian newspapers touting his go-slow approach to that country's nuclear threat.
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Speaking in Jerusalem in November, Clinton acknowledged that the remark was "outrageous," but he cautioned that the Iranian leader was "not elected because of his hatred for Israel or the West."

"He was elected because of the economic distress of ordinary Iranians, and which he promised to relieve by giving them financial assistance," the ex-president insisted, according to the Jerusalem Post.

Clinton warned Israel not to act unilaterally when reacting to terrorist threats, saying that "true peace and security can only come through principled compromise."

The former president's remarks on Monday at an economic conference in Doha, Qatar are also winning high praise.

Clinton took pains to condemn a series of cartoons appearing in European newspapers that parodied the Islamic prophet Mohammed, calling them "appalling."

"So now what are we going to do? ... Replace the anti-Semitic prejudice with anti-Islamic prejudice?" he told the conference.

On Thursday, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak warned that the cartoons could provoke terrorist attacks against the West, but according to the Bahrain News Agency, Mubarak "expressed appreciation of the declarations made by former U.S. President, Bill Clinton."

Clinton's recent performance has prompted glowing press in news outlets not known for their friendly posture towards America.

Bill seems to forget that freedom of speech thing that we have in the west. And then seems to think that satire against Islam is a disgraceful replacement to anti-Semitic rhetoric.

Hanson even mentions it in his post at NRO this week.
Now the Islamic world is organizing boycotts of Denmark because one of its newspapers chose to run a cartoon supposedly lampooning the prophet Mohammed. We are supposed to forget that it is de rigueur in raucous Scandinavian popular culture to attack Christianity with impunity. Much less are we to remember that Hamas terrorists occupied and desecrated the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem in a globally televised charade.

Instead, Danish officials are threatened, boycotts organized, ambassadors recalled -— and, yes, Bill Clinton steps forward to offer another lip-biting apology while garnering lecture fees in the oil-rich Gulf, in the manner of his mea culpa last year to the Iranian mullacracy. There is now a pattern to Clintonian apologies - they almost always occur overseas and on someone else's subsidy.

I really hope that people around the world don't think that Clinton speaks for America. He has a right as a private citizen to speak freely for himself, but doesn't represent the views of a large proportion of the American public.

You can read the nauseating end to the linked article on Clinton. I can't seem to come up with anything civil to say in response.

Do go and read the Hanson article. He has some excellent perspective in his commentary.

2 comments:

Granted said...

Beyond simple existence, did Ford, Nixon, Reagan & Bush I get up in people's grills the way that Jemma & Bill seem to feel the need to? I just don't recall Nixon commenting on Clinton's foreign policy, did I miss it? So why are these two ex-presidents so insistent on voicing their opinions on the world stage?

Nylarthotep said...

I'm really uncertain as to motive. Especially when the value of their comments are pretty limited.

I'm thinking that the label of crack pot has stuck to Jemma. Though I think Clinton has avoided that pretty effectively. Sadly Clinton seems to be playing the American apoligist. I find myself resenting his representations of the American citizenry when he plays to his audience's bias.