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The Far Right Recoils

By The Daily Dish
Jun 4 2009, 11:42 AM ET

Hewitt, spluttering because Obama has not adopted the neoconservative view of the Middle East:

The world is the worse for this speech because it was not honest about the situation in the Middle East, not honest about the threat from Iran, not honest about Israel's deep desire to be allowed to live in peace, and not honest about the determination of Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran to destroy Israel and to gain the weapons necessary to do so in an instant.

No speech so deeply dishonest in its omissions or so rhetorically misleading its its assumptions and arguments can do anything other than communicate extraordinary weakness on the part of the United States.  It will indeed be a famous speech, for all the wrong reasons. 


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