Pat on the Back

As you might know from reading this daily blog, I have been a little harsh on the new President of our country. I have criticized him for things that most would consider insane, like detaining the former president after he was sworn in for war crimes or for bringing a Satanic Symbol in Rick Warren. But after pondering how to look at the new presidency for a long time, I decided it's time to give this administration some time.

It has been one week and he already restored much of the credibility of our country in the eyes of the world and more importantly in the eyes of Americans. He ordered the CIA to shut down "secret" camps, stop torturing, close down Gitmo, and yesterday he extended an olive branch to the Muslim world by saying "America is not your enemy". It is important to understand that all of the above was done not to make America weak but to make her great.

It is important for us to understand why we have such a conflict with terrorists. First, they are religious extremes which is a euphemism for crazy. The second reason why we are in this situation is America's policies towards the Muslim world when it comes to War and Oil. There is no set reason why Muslim terrorists hate us besides those two, even when it comes to religious wars, Islam recognizes Christianity and Judaism as Biblical religions but vice versa.

Muslims make up about 1/6 of the entire world's population and this planet is moving towards globalization faster than anybody has foreseen. This is evident by the global economic meltdown after America's economy failed. We can ignore their presence and influence on the world or we can reach out to them so when religious nuts speak out against America, they would really sound crazy.