The Obama Doctrine, Pt. II

Here's the problem I have with Obama's "let's be friends with terrorists" policy: They don't want to be friends.
Think about that for a moment.
Suppose you are back in high school, and the kid that makes fun of you every day and beats you up every day continues to make fun of you and beat you up, even after you walk up to him and try to become his friend. You tell him (or her), "Hey, let's be friends! You can come to my house and eat hot-pockets and play some Nintendo with me! Then we can be friends, and at the next homecoming dance, maybe you won't pants me on the dance floor?"
And yet, in front of everyone at the dance, especially that hot girl in the sophomore class, Aubrey, whom in your burgeoning adolescent cootie-free existential hormonal idealism you've idolized as the epitome of womanhood for months and months and months, you still run out of the auditorium with your khakis around your ankles and the jocks and cheerleaders laughing to the thump of House of Pain's "Jump Around".
Except in this case it's not the cool kid Josh who spits on you in the lunch line and just wants to make your life miserable because your brother embarrassed him in calculus class. It's an entire country of militants who wants to kill you because you don't believe in their god or have somehow betrayed his purity. It's an entire civilization who believes the way to the afterlife is to exterminate those who don't believe their beliefs.
Recent reports out of Iran suggest they are much farther along in developing their nuclear arsenal than previously thought. That's not good. There's a reason Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad closes speeches to the UN with an invocation to Allah to hasten the coming of the messiah, who will bring a worldwide Islamic reign, not to mention the coming apocalypse. He's got some big plans for those new nukes.
Obama's arrogance makes him believe the force of his personality and his personal charisma is enough to sway the centuries-held beliefs of a civilization that at its core hates the West. They've already indicted the US as "the great satan". I'm sorry Barack, but one man cannot undo a thousand years of dogma.
Let's go back to the school scenario again. I guess I'm feeling nostalgic. I had a friend in college who was math major. He changed majors during our junior year, but that's beside the point. If he were to register for an advanced mathematics class with a popular professor who told him two plus two equals five, do you think he would believe it? No matter how popular or charismatic this professor might be, he would have a hard time convincing someone of something contrary to what they've known their entire lives. And when you add religion, that's like adding water to cement mix.
I've always believed Reese's peanut butter cups are delicious. Who's going to convince me otherwise? No one, that's who.
This is a grand simplification of the situation with Iran and the Middle East, but it gets at the larger picture which Obama either refuses to see, or simply is too arrogant to realize, that we are different. Completely different. Our Judeo-Christian beliefs are far removed from theirs, and Obama doesn't seem to understand this. Or, if he does, I'm not so sure he is as concerned as he ought to be. President Bush made mistakes during his eight years, to be sure, but he understood the fundamental difference between us and them.
I realize I have just made what may be considered an argument against the Iraq war, the chasm of our difference. I'm not going to debate whether it was right or wrong. I happen to believe we did ourselves and the world a great service by deposing of a deranged despot and malevolent dictator. Feel free to argue until you are blue in the face, it won't change my opinion. The fact is the board was tilted in the favor of Europe, America, freedom for the oppressed people of Iraq with which to do as they choose, and especially stability the Middle East.
Of course, Obama could be working towards the same apocalyptic end as well. I don't know. He did spend his childhood in Indonesia studying Islam...