Former President George W. Bush finished his part in a lecture series at University of Mary Hardin-Baylor in Texas yesterday, when he was asked about the current crisis with Islamic radicals – and here is what FOX reported he said:
"Evil is real. There is no light grey. Murdering innocent people to move a political point of view has been, is, and always will be evil.”
“It was no surprise, said Bush, when extremists recently launched an attack in France,” reported FOX. “That case and others is why he believes the lessons he learned after the 9-11 attacks are relevant today.”
"And so when the pressure is off, they strike in order to frighten us who believe in freedom," said Bush.
"So one of the real dangers is an isolationist tendency," said Bush. He said that even if the U.S. is not dependent on oil in the Middle East, it should not withdraw entirely from the region because there are “political, humanitarian and national security” reasons to stay.
But he added that he believed history has shown that “people who follow a brutal and warlike belief do have the capacity of changing,” and used imperial Japan’s embrace of democracy after WWII as one example.
He urged the university community to “not let defeat or doubt define what can be achieved.”
While Bush did not directly offer advice to Obama or others, he did urge political leaders “to always seek advice and to listen, even to those they don't agree with.”
h/t: The Blaze