ABSURD APOLOGIES AND A BOW FROM OUR PRESIDENT

Everywhere President Obama went during his sojourn to the G20 conference, to NATO, to the European Union, to the Czech Republic and to Turkey, he apologized on behalf of the United States for past Bush Administration policies. At the G20 conference he bowed to Saudi King Abdullah. He told the Europenas: "There have been times where America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive." Obama also told the Turkish parliament that America "is not and never will be at war with Islam." That sure sounds sort of like an apology for some of the Bush administration's post-9/11 anti-terrorism policies.

OK, so the Bush Administration had our military attack Iraq contrary to the wishes of the United Nationsd and theEuropean Union. So what! The UN is dominated by third world countries, many of them Muslim countries, who have always hated America's power and who have spent 60 years condemning the State of Israel every time it hiccupped in response to Arab attacks and Palestinian provocations.

Apologizing to the Europeans was absurd! The EU is practically irrelevant with respect to world conflicts. True, the Europeans do possess some economic clout, but they are beset by divisive squabbles and, except for British and French nuclear arms, militarily weak. The British and French are frightened of a burgeoning volatile Islamic immigrant population and, together with other European nations, are loathe to take any domestic or foreighn policy actions that might anger local Muslims or the Islamic world.

The Muslim world is united in its utter hatred of Israel and Jews. Muslim clerics and religious school texts label Jews as pigs and apes. Any nation, like the U.S., that supports Israel is deemed an enemy waging war against Islam. Besides that, the true believers among Muslims hate all infidels, not just Jews, and they hate anything that smacks of Western culture. So what does Obama do? He bows to King Abdullah, the guardian of Islam's holiest shrines and the dictator of a country in which school children are taught to hate Christians and Jews.

Obama obviously ignores the fact that Islamists have been waging war against the West since well before the birth of Israel and long before either Bush ever took up residence in the White House. So, when Obama said that we are not at war with Islam, it is evident that he woke up in a different world from the rest of us. And when he reaches out to Muslims, they will just reach back to strangle us unless we drop our support of Israel, and unless we submit to the puritanical dictates of the Islamic faith.

While Obama's unwarranted apologies may have pleased his European audiences, they are an embarrassment to the United States which he may come to regret. And when he told the Turkish palirament that he wants a Palestinian state, he may have pleased some Muslims, but Israelis better beware! With Obama's inner circle of pro-Palestinian foreign policy advisers, Israel can take little comfort in the President's past declarations of support for the Jewish state.