Krauthammer: Obama "Alienated All Sides" With Mosque Comments
Charles Krauthammer: "What happened was the President made a strong statement, hailed as a courageous one at the Ramadan dinner. But it wasn't a matter of courage. Courage would have been, at that audience, a Muslim audience, he should have said, "Yes, I believe in the legal right. You have every legal right to do it. But I would appeal to you as Americans -- after all, I'm the President. I'm not a judge, I'm not the Supreme Court, I don't decide on legality, but as President I speak on behalf of the spirit of America -- that you ought to consider the decency and propriety of establishing a house of worship dedicated to Islam at a spot where people were murdered in the name of Islam." Obviously, there's a distinction between the murderers and the religion, there's no question about that. But this is a place where you might want a nondenominational place of worship as you have in hospitals, a place of meditation. But establishing a mosque in that area is a provocation. The President should have said that. He didn't. He missed an opportunity. And I think he alienated all sides here."
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