From the June 20 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:
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STEVE DOOCY (HOST): After 9/11 where as you talk in your column about how we all pledged we will never forget. People have forgotten and this president in particular has forgotten that we're at war.
MICHAEL GOODWIN: Well look I think he's always wanted to downplay the Islamist significance. I mean, it's obvious. And I cite his speech in Cairo in 2009 which I think really is a road map to everything he's done on foreign policy, it is essentially that he offered himself as a broker between the Islamic world and the United States. He thought both were at fault and that he would be able to heal this breach. And as I say in the column and as you quoted there, the president of the United States cannot be a broker. The president of the United States -- especially with a foreign enemy. The president of the United States must lead this nation to victory. We are at war, but he does not see it as a war. Therefore, there is no victory.
DOOCY: Sure. In your column you write he gave himself that assignment in the 2009 Cairo speech citing his father's Islamic background in Kenya, and his own boyhood in Indonesia. How does that impact his worldview?
GOODWIN: Well, look. I think any of us can put ourselves in that position and imagine growing up in another country, imagine growing up with fathers -- both the father and step father were Muslims. So it clearly had an impact on his life which he has talked about openly. So it's not some secret. I'm not suggesting or saying that he is a Muslim, but I think that his boyhood has clearly shaped and as he said in that speech, he wants to be a bridge. He wants to heal the breach. But in fact, it's only gotten worse because of the terrorism issue which he will not admit.
