
Episode 694 • • 1:08:00 - 1:12:24
694: Bend it Down
National Prayer Breakfast, Obama and the Crusades
President Obama sparked controversy at the National Prayer Breakfast by comparing the atrocities of ISIS to the Crusades and the Inquisition. The hosts analyze the speech and a subsequent discussion by Fareed Zakaria, who argued that ISIS represents a civil war within Islam. They suggest the President's rhetoric is intended to frame the conflict as an internal religious issue that must be solved by regional actors like Jordan.
