"Respect and Partnership"

Obama said the U.S. had made mistakes in the past but "that the same respect and partnership that America had with the Muslim world as recently as 20 or 30 years ago, there's no reason why we can't restore that."

Same respect and partnership? Does he mean like this? Or maybe this? No, no, it had to be this. Oh, you mean he was talking about this. OK, you mean THAT type of partnership, where we give you billions of dollars every year for you to not kill us or our friends. Aha, I get it now.

Sad to say, but this is really the only guaranteed way to garner respect in the corridors of power in the Muslim world. The man on the street in the Muslim world has no power, no voice, no ability to receive an olive branch.

UPDATE: I only scratched the surface. Amir Teheri goes deep.