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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Bald Eagle who wrote (749616)9/19/2006 12:30:20 PM
From: pompsander   of 769670
 
I heard Selbourne give a presentation a couple of months ago...he is a very compelling speaker and he handled the questions from his audience (some of which were from the "progressives" he criticizes most loudly) quite handily.

The one place he seemed to stumble in my view, was in a lengthy discussion with a muslim audience member who challenged him on the fact that Islam is not a religion and that there are, in fact, tens of millions of muslims who want an alternative to either jihadist dominance from one side and simple catagorization of all Islam as sub-human (my word) by some in the west. The audience member challenged Selbourne on what steps had been taken by recent administrations, particularly the current one, to build support for non-extremist muslims throughout the world. The audience member went on long and strong on the popular notion that the misadventure in Iraq had done more to undercut the moderate Islamic core than anything America could have done except "capture Mecca". The speaker went on with the long laundry list of poor planning, non-native speakers, naive expectations, lack of cultural appreciation, etc. He had Selbourne on the defensive on most of these points becasue Selbourne could not explain how, with recent events as to the realities in Iraq, why this was not causing a problem for moderate Islamists.

Selbourne and this individual had a very civil and intelligent conversation for about ten minutes. It was one of the most interesting and informative analysis of this subject I had ever seen.
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