Obama says US not at war with Islam but Islam is at war with us.

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One civilization clashing By Caroline B. Glick
On June 7 Hizbullah will likely take over Lebanon...another Iranian vassal state through ballots, not bullets. ...Islamists have won every ...election in the region for the past six years....only outlier in this pattern is Iraq...only country in the region...West overthrew an enemy regime and retained an empowered military force... What will happen in Iraq once US forces are withdrawn ....Palestinian voters ...supported Hamas because they support its goal of destroying Israel. Iranian voters chose Ahmadinejad ...because of Ahmadinejad's outspoken extremism. Muslim Brotherhood...calls ...replacement with a caliphate...spawned both al Qaida and Hamas. ...Lebanon...Hizbullah is a vote for war against Israel and the West and a vote for placing Lebanon under effective Iranian control....Turkey...signed a military pact ...providing arms and training for the Lebanese army — ...subservient to Hizbullah...signed a defense agreement with Syria's Ministry of Defense,... first joint exercise between Syria and a NATO member.As for Iran, Turkey signed a trade agreement...slated to double bilateral trade ... Ankara gave a green light to Iranian gas exports...through the Nabucco gas pipeline which...was supposed to bypass both Iran and Russia...exports from the former Soviet republics...Iran's access ... earn it billions of dollars...increase its political power as Europe increases its dependence.... For former president George W. Bush and his advisors, the root of Islamic extremism was authoritarianism and the solution was Westernization through open elections...Bush administration was confounded. ...administration alternatively denied reality ...pretended that the AKP was a moderate, pro-Western Islamist party...Or they claimed that the people were simply voting against corruption and showered them with money — as has been the case with the Hamas-supporting Palestinians. Or...have simply ignored the fact that elections took place. ... Rather than cut off ties.Bush administration continued to support Saniora and increased US military assistance to the Lebanese army — hoping that it could pretend away the problem.For Obama, Islamic hostility towards the West is caused by American arrogance, ...solution must be American contrition. ... one international apology tour to the next ... air the CIA's laundry in public. ... Obama's apologetics are not winning them over, but emboldening... more aggressive positions against the West. ...explanation is really nothing more than an observation....Islamic countries and societies support Islamist parties... because they support what they stand for. ... defeat the West and promise the death of America and the death of Israel.The jihadist message resonates with them. Their hearts and minds have already been won over. ...how Obama will react when he like Bush is no longer able to deny that his strategy for winning over the hearts and minds of the Islamic world has failed....will simply ignore reality and pretend that nothing has happened; if he will blame his political opponents or Israel for not joining him in his contrition... what is happening in the Islamic world has next to nothing to do with either what the West embodies or what it has done,... resonance of ...Islamist message within the Islamic world,...Like it or not, it appears that the rising forces in the Islamic world perceive themselves as at war with Western civilization. They cannot be convinced ... current situation, in which only one side is willing to recognize that there is a war going on between two mutually exclusive ways of organizing human societies, will only lead us to more violent and devastating clashes in the future.