Where's the Nuance

Farah Pandith has been appointed as Barack Hussein Obama's envoy to the Muslim world. In a report by Hilary Leila Krieger in the Jerusalem Post, the United States representative to Muslim communities talks about the need for "nuance" in our outreach toward Islam. I can see how effective a subtle touch is with a suicide bomber in a nightclub (see Bali), suicide terrorists in a theater (see Moscow theater siege), or a school (see Beslan). I am sure the soft touch-finessing would work on an Islamist with a box cutter on an airliner (see World Trade Center-no you can no longer see it as it was reduced to a hole in the ground). To the rational, decent Muslim, no nuance is necessary-they see and are outraged by the murderous acts of those who manipulate their faith to advance nihilism. They vast majority of the world's 1.2 billion Muslims were appalled by all outrages against innocents. They need no special US envoy-many of them wish to come here for freedom and educational and economic opportunity. To those practitioners of Islam who find anything redeeming in terror, all the US effort in the world will not bring them around-they are happy where they are, on the side of Mullahs in Iran who have raped their own country or al Qaeda madmen who brought the shaheed to America in a way we will never forget.