What we need to remember is that we should not indulge fundamentalist revisionists and hypocrites of Aristotle’s day nor of our own. This includes evangelicals and teachers of treachery worldwide.

Again Tom in an effort to maintain your head while traveling Arabia you decided not to differentiate between western democracy and Moslem dictatorships. It is not the role of the president to speak out to the world on the fortunes of a video maker. That he did was an expression of his faith that our nuclear capability and our submarines and hopefully not our capital will bend their will. For God knows nothing on earth can be as cryptic as an Arab when it comes to logic. It is not the president of the US job to condemn or apologize for an individual. The Republicans found it necessary to criticize the president for sparking a mediator’s tone when in fact he had not at the time made a public speech on the matter.

Secondly it is painfully obvious that most Americans have a better understanding of this mess than the pundits who want to use freedom of expression to vaguely protect a president and our country when it is the Arab’s fault for being so backwards. Arabs are not strictly speaking a race or a religion. They are a separate part of the human race living in a void where only traditional Moslem values have not found their way to the present times. As John Oliver humorously stated if we give the Islamist nations time to catch up with western democracies it will take as long as four to five centuries. He used the parallel to the Christian denominations which until the Inquisition were similarly entombing bodies for having different beliefs and witches more recently for being left handed. So why we persist in insisting they behave themselves is a road to martyrdom. They are not our allies. Nor our friends. They are avowed enemies. Not because of their religion but because they have not moved forward in time. And they may never.