Here's a taste of his latest:
In his first TV interview as president, Barack Obama told viewers of
al-Arabiya TV that he wanted to restore the “same respect and
partnership that America had with the Muslim world as recently as 20 or
30 years ago.” I’m not sure quite what golden age he’s looking back to
there — the Beirut barracks slaughter? the embassy hostages? — but the
point is, it’s very hard to turn back the clock. Because the facts on
the ground change, and change remorselessly. Even in 30 years. Between
1970 and 2000, the developed world declined from just under 30 percent
of the global population to just over 20 percent, while the Muslim
world increased from 15 percent to 20 percent. And in 2030, it won’t
even be possible to re-take that survey, because by that point half the
“developed world“ will itself be Muslim: In Bradford — as in London,
Amsterdam, Brussels, and almost every other western European city from
Malmo to Marseilles — the principal population growth comes from Islam.
Thirty years ago, in the Obama golden age, a British documentary-maker
was so horrified by the “honor killing” of a teenage member of the
House of Saud at the behest of her father, the king’s brother, that he
made a famous TV film about it, Death Of A Princess. The
furious Saudis threatened a trade boycott with Britain over this
unwanted exposure. Today, we have honor killings not just in Saudi
Arabia and Pakistan, but in Germany, Scandinavia, Britain, Toronto,
Dallas, and Buffalo. And they barely raise an eyebrow.
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