{"id":11257,"date":"2009-06-05T13:44:11","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T18:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=11257"},"modified":"2009-06-05T13:44:11","modified_gmt":"2009-06-05T18:44:11","slug":"american-legion-commander-urges-strength-not-apologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=11257","title":{"rendered":"American Legion Commander urges strength, not apologies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, it seems that President Obama can’t do much to please the American Legion national commander these days. David K. Rehbein’s office released this statement today<\/a> in regards to the President’s speech to Muslims in Egypt this week;<\/p>\n

The head of The American Legion is stressing the need for strength as well as conciliation in President Obama\u2019s current campaign to improve relations with Muslim countries. <\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough The American Legion does not believe that the United States has anything to apologize for, we appreciate the spirit of President Obama\u2019s call for what he termed a \u2018new beginning\u2019 in our relationship with the followers of Islam,\u201d said David K. Rehbein, national commander of the nation\u2019s largest veterans service organization.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must demand reciprocity of both spirit and deed,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen the president pronounces, as he did in his conciliatory address in Egypt, that the events of September 11, 2001, in his words, \u2018led us to act contrary to our traditions and our ideals\u2019, he must, in our opinion, demand equally public admission from the Muslim world that elements within its community have been responsible for egregious acts of terrorism including mass killings, torture and public beheadings \u2013 acts that must be contrary to their traditions and ideals.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the President announces that, to quote him, \u2018we are taking concrete actions to change course,\u2019 with reference to the exercise of certain interrogation techniques and the very controversial order to close detainee housing at Guantanamo Bay, then it is incumbent upon him to demand that the Muslim community take concrete and demonstrable action to suppress and eliminate those within their own ranks who are responsible for uncounted, unprovoked acts of terrorism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The national commander writes this in regards to the Guantanamo prisoners and the soldiers murdered in Arkansas this past week;<\/p>\n

\u201cEven if these detainees were to be housed in the most secure premises possible,\u201d said Rehbein, \u201cthey might still be free to communicate their radical beliefs to fellow prisoners, thus converting already known criminals to their murderous points of view \u2013 much as the Arkansas killer was persuaded to commit his act of terror.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the whole thing, Rehbein echoes many of our own thoughts here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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