Steve Hayes makes the key points in his criticism of the speech — the president rejected American exceptionalism, diminished the achievement of U.S. arms in Iraq, and invoked numerous strawmen — all of which seemed an attempt to reframe the course of history and the current friction between Islam and the West . The president seems to genuinely believe that dialogue,
and not threats, coercion, and violence, are the best
* is the only way to resolve the world’s problems. More than that, he believes that history bears this out:

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