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The Haze Administration
'War on terror' is out; 'overseas contingency operations' is in.
When George W. Bush was President, not everyone cared for his assertions that America was engaged in a "global war on terror." Among the critics was the bipartisan 9/11 Commission, whose 2004 report argued that "the enemy is not just 'terrorism,' some generic evil. This vagueness blurs the strategy. The catastrophic threat at this moment in history is more specific. It is the threat posed by Islamist terrorism -- especially the al Qaeda network, its affiliates, and its ideology."...
****One must ask Why? The ostensible reason is that Muslims have felt that "War on Terror" applied to them. This silly verbiage was actually designed by W. Bush (the great theologian explaining that "Islam is a religion of peace" ) NOT to single them out although the war was and is clearly against the enemy: Radical Islamists.
One must wonder if this peculiar obfuscation is part of Obama's "outreach" to Muslims and is exculpatory of Islamists, to the detriment of security and common sense. If so, it is pandering of the most dangerous kind. Pretending that a threat doesn't exist does not make it go away: it emboldens and makes contemptuous the very enemies we should be concerned about. It is vital that THEY be concerned about US.
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