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Steyn blames Obama’s disregard of Syrian violence on being ‘uncurious about the world’

Jeff Poor Media Reporter
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Over the past few days, President Barack Obama has been on the trail promoting his budget proposal, while his administration has been the target of attacks for announcing a contraception mandate. However, missing in large part from the president’s speeches has been any sort of public criticism of the regime in charge of Syria and its brutal crackdown on anti-government opposition.

On Hugh Hewitt’s Friday show, National Review columnist Mark Steyn hypothesized that Obama isn’t talking much about the Syrian situation because of his general view of the United States and its foreign policy. And that, according to Steyn, has made him “uncurious” about these sorts of international events.

“I think generally speaking he’s uncurious about the world,” Steyn said. “His view of the world, which you can tell from his apology tours, is that many problems of the world stem from what he sees as U.S. imperialism. That’s because he has been marinated in an American college campus worldview all his adult life, and that’s where they take this sort of stuff for granted.”

According to Steyn, Obama’s take on the world allows him to not have to be aware what is going on “on the edge of the map.”

“The biggest advantage of that is that it absolves you from knowing the slightest thing that’s going on out there on the edge of the map,” he said. “And that’s why that kind of anti-Americanism is really a kind of loser parochialism.”

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