Pretty much everything on earth shrinks when it freezes, save for good old water. This column is no exception, and it's 6 degrees F outside here in the Sunny South. So this is a nice, quick and easy column to send us off into the weekend. It is strawman time once again.
At the conclusion of the uneventful White House Summit to Countering Violent Extremism, Barack Obama said this:
"The notion that the West is at war with Islam is an ugly lie."
A lie, as we all know, is an intentional falsehood. It is not, of course, a lie if no one says it. So if Barack H. Obama feels the need to conclude a conference by castigating non-existent people, for not having said something, that is not true, then one wonders what is going on between those protruding ears and under the buzz-cut.
Because no one says the West is at war with Islam.
There is a big ol' comments section below, with lots and lots of room for you all to show me wrong and point to where someone has said that the West is at war with Islam and no, ISIS videos don't count. Obama was pointing to someone, I guess; I just don't know whom. Does he think that peaceful Muslims are saying it? Al Qaeda? Republicans? Debbie Wasserman-Schultz?
He didn't say. Sounds like a strawman to me. Comments welcome.
Copyright 2015 by Robert Sutton
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