Repairing relations? There is a Jihad flame buring brightly in the Middle East, and that flame will burn everyone attempting to put it out or lower it, regardless of any label assigned (terrorist or diplomat). Mark my words.

What the President is talking about is repairing the US’s relations with predominantly Muslim countries so that we can work together to ferret out and destroy (or at least reduce) the muslim terrorist fanatics.
That sounds like a much better approach than making enemies of all Muslims all over the world which people in this country did - and somewhat understandably - after 9/11.
Don’t you understand that MOST Muslims are NOT in favor of the fanatical terrorists? Or do you paint all Muslims as terrorists? Shame on you.
Most want to live in peace as we do. So working with those people and those countries can be very effective. But we do have some apologies to make - perhaps you should go first. Something like - “Sorry, I thought all Muslims were terrorists. My mistake.” It would be more accurate than anything in your article.

All the ground we gained through tough diplomatic policies and all the blood shed on foreign soil goes for naught when we already KNOW that talking doesn’t work. It has already been proven that Jihadist give no honor to their perceived enemies and they would as soon lie to us as eat a date.