President Obama’s tone on Islamic terrorism during his speech at the United Nations on Wednesday was quite similar points to the rhetoric used by President George W. Bush during his own speech to the U.N. in September 2001, Fox News’s Megyn Kelly pointed out.
“It is no exaggeration to say that humanity’s future depends on us uniting against those who would divide us along the fault lines of tribe or sect, race or religion,” Obama said Wednesday, echoing Bush’s thirteen-year-old declaration that “civilization itself is threatened” by Islamic fundamentalism.
“There can be no reasoning, no negotiation with this brand of evil,” Obama said, mirroring his predecessor’s claim that “this threat cannot be ignored, this threat cannot be appeased.”
Kelly called the dramatic change a “180-degree turn” from Candidate Obama’s warning against “fear-mongering” about terrorism and his rejection of the “War on Terror” in 2008.
The president’s rhetorical about-face comes as American war planes continue to pound Islamic State targets in Syria and Iraq, seeking to degrade and destroy the ultra-violent jihadist network.
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