The American Spectator

p> OBAMA THE ONLY WAY br> Re: Philip Klein’s Stop Believing Obama : /p> p>This is in regards to your Stop Believing Obama article. It is interesting to see how far we’ve come. To see a time in which an even-handed approach to two nations at war is so inconceivable it is mentioned in a treasonous tone. The exact problem to our approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the lack of an even handed approach, a lack of respect to the powers that be in the Palestinian camp. We attack and put down the actions of Hamas and rightfully so, but we do not take the same “even-handed” approach when it comes to the actions of Israel. For some reason this would be unthinkably treasonous, and a presidential candidate that would take this approach would be unacceptable. If you wish to ascribe to the thought that people commit acts of terror against our nation and against Israel because they our jealous of our freedom, they hate our way of life, or they have a lunatic driven hate of all things non-Muslim than you are no greater enlightened than our president and we have seen where his logic has led us. Sir an even-handed approach is the best way for our country to gain respect and trust in the middle east and is the true way to fight the war on terror. To not believe so is the definition of discrimination. It is to believe that a group of people are inherently evil, or that they do not have the comprehension level to wish or want for peace and thereby to wish to prosper. This points to the belief that these people do not have the cognition to ensure their own longterm survival. Sir I look not to defend Hamas, Hezbollah, or any other terrorist organization. I am a patriotic American citizen with no religion. I simply want to attack the lunacy of attacking an even-handed approach as an unpatriotic, treasonous, and intolerable one, when in fact it is the only way. br> — Parham Farahat /p> p> Philip, it is not a new kind of politics, in fact it is just one of oldest known. Nothing works better on a mass of ignorant people than setting one’s self up as a god like figure and attacking the credibility of anyone that dares questions the all mighty. This theme is played out time and time again throughout the ages and it works when you have enough ignorance running amok. We’ve got a butt load running about and you can find them most nights dialed into ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, PBS, NPR and even FNC to some extent. Ignorance and one vote more than the other guy wins every time. br> — Thom Bateman br> Newport News, Virginia /p>