By Paul Eidelberg

Those who say President Obama’s denial of “Islamic extremism” is mere “political correctness” are themselves guilty of “political correctness”; for to use that epithet to describe Obama is to use a euphemism for intellectual dishonesty.

Obama’s “political correctness” is nothing is less than flat out lying; but no journalist has the guts call Obama a liar.

Obama is not simply a fool, utterly ignorant of the truth. Nor is he simply stupid.  Perhaps he has been tongue-tied by moral relativism, which denies the existence of truth. But to accuse him of being “politically correct” is a double entendre, as if he transcends dichotomy of ignorance and stupidity.

Be this as it may, it’s Obama’s moral relativism that made him an “empty suit.” During his first presidential campaign he called himself a “cosmopolitan” – call him a man without a country. But inasmuch the United States is the most powerful country in the world, a cosmopolitan like Obama would want to strip this country of its worldwide influence, especially in relation to Obama’s origin, the Third World. This may explain both his bowing to Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, the spearhead of Sunni Islam, and his appeasement of Iran, the spearhead of Shiite Islam.

However, since Obama is a multicultural moral relativist, one may wonder how he can logically favor any ideology. But why should this “empty suit” be logically consistent?  Logical consistency would contradict Islamic theology, which posits the absolute and arbitrary Will of Islam’s deity, Allah. This is why Islamic theology rejects the Genesis concept of man’s creation in the image of God, which involves the primacy of Reason.

Enter the Taliban, the Muslims who believe that “reason stinks of corruption.” By rejecting reason, these guardians of the faith have no limits on what they may say or do.  This Islamic mentality is consistent with the refusal of Obama to denounce “radical” Islam or Islamic “extremism,” let alone as “evil.”

To associate Islam with evil would belie Obama’s moral relativism. It would also place in question his appointing to the Executive branch members of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Even more ominous, ponder his appointment of multiculturalists to the lifelong tenure of the American Supreme Court. This cannot but hasten the demise of America, of the Pax Americana, which saved Europe from Nazi and Communist totalitarianism, and which alone can save Western Civilization from Islamic totalitarianism.

This is not to suggest that Obama is animated by aggressive grandiose ambitions. He is no Hitler or Stalin or a Saladin.

He is indeed an empty suit, a politician history has belched out to display the decadence and final stage of Democratic Man. Ortega called this empty suit the “mass man.” Nietzsche called him the “Last Man,” a man devoid of any noble aspiration, of whom Flaubert said would make any man of taste want to vomit!

The trouble is that this vacuous human being, who harbors a hatred of Western Civilization, is shielding Iran, the spearhead of Islam. Iran’s acquisition of ballistic nuclear missiles would have grave implications for Israel and America, the two standards bearers of all that we cherish for ourselves and posterity.