{"id":1614,"date":"2012-09-13T14:15:50","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T21:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scotshonor.com\/?p=1614"},"modified":"2012-09-13T14:15:50","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T21:15:50","slug":"rewarding-bad-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scotshonor.com\/?p=1614","title":{"rendered":"REWARDING BAD BEHAVIOR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christians in the United States have become used to being the subject of insults.\u00a0 For example in 2004 there was a move called:\u00a0 Saved!\u00a0 Following is a description of that film:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saved\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saved<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Although \u201cSaved!\u201d was unique in that it was totally dedicated to slamming Christianity, Hollywood has been insulting Christians for decades.\u00a0 Bill Maher has made an entire career out of insulting Christians.\u00a0 The liberal left instantly tells any Christian who dares complain to take a chill pill.<\/p>\n<p>Yet if someone says anything negative about Islam, they are immediately rebuked by the liberal left.\u00a0 Suddenly free speech isn\u2019t free if it insults someone\u2019s religious beliefs.\u00a0 \u00a0That is, unless the person is a Christian.\u00a0 It is always ok to insult Christians.<\/p>\n<p>Both President Obama and Hillary Clinton went out of their way to rebuke the inflammatory film that allegedly filled so many people with rage.\u00a0 In some ways this is laughable, because no one can even identify the exact film in question.\u00a0 Apparently all the excitement is about a 13 minute trailer for a film that may or may not exist.<\/p>\n<p>Our current foreign policy is nothing more than rewarding people for bad behavior.\u00a0 The Muslim world routinely erupts in violence at the hint of an insult to Islam.\u00a0 The Obama administration responds by focusing more on the alleged insult than the violent reaction.\u00a0 The angrier they get, the louder the apology.\u00a0 In Egypt, we apologized before the protestors had time to organize. \u00a0If this was intended to calm things down, it obviously didn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n<p>For several years the United States has had an official policy of refusing to negotiate with kidnappers.\u00a0 This is because we know that if you reward kidnappers by giving them what they want, you just end up with more kidnappers.\u00a0 Rewarding people for bad behavior always encourages more bad behavior.\u00a0 President Obama did not create the outrage in the Arab world, but his policies have encouraged it.<\/p>\n<p>When Mitt Romney released his statement on Tuesday, it was more than two hours after the attack in Libya and more than 8 hours after the intrusion into our embassy in Egypt.\u00a0 Yet, as of the time he spoke, there was no official US statement from either the White House or the State Department.\u00a0 The only thing resembling an official response was those idiotic tweets from the Cairo Embassy.<\/p>\n<p>Today President Obama threw the Cairo Embassy staff members under the bus pretending that it was they who made the mistake.\u00a0 He forgave them because they were under stress.\u00a0 No one at CNN thought to ask the WH why, if it didn\u2019t consider those statements to be a problem, was it working so hard to walk them back?<\/p>\n<p>CNN is continuing to pretend that it was Romney who made a huge mistake.\u00a0 Romney, to his credit, is not backing down.\u00a0 Ultimately the truth will come out and that will help Romney.\u00a0 There are riots at our embassies all over the world and the scenes are more than disturbing.\u00a0 Obama\u2019s foreign policy is in shambles and the fruits of his labors are highly visible on the nightly news no matter how they spin it.<\/p>\n<p>TDM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christians in the United States have become used to being the subject of insults.\u00a0 For example in 2004 there was a move called:\u00a0 Saved!\u00a0 Following is a description of that film: http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saved! 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