Obongo's father was a muzzie, by Islamic law that makes him one.
Posted on 08/06/2009 9:06:41 PM PDT by La Lydia
The U.S. government must fundamentally redefine the struggle against terrorism, replacing the "war on terror" with a campaign combining all facets of national power to defeat the enemy, John O. Brennan, President Obama's senior counterterrorism adviser, said Wednesday. Previewing what aides said will be the administration's most comprehensive statement to date on its long-term strategy to defeat al-Qaeda and other violent extremists worldwide, Brennan said in an interview that the United States will maintain "unrelenting" pressure on terrorist havens, including those near the Afghan-Pakistani border, in Yemen and in Somalia.
However, Washington must couple the military strikes that have depleted al-Qaeda's middle ranks with more sustained use of economic, diplomatic and cultural levers to diminish Islamist radicalization, he said, exercising "soft power" in ways that President George W. Bush came to embrace but had trouble carrying out....
"This is not a 'war on terror.' . . . We cannot let the terror prism guide how we're going to interact and be involved in different parts of the world," said Brennan.
The U.S. shift in tone comes as Obama national security officials, six months after taking office, are seeking to maintain a fragile bipartisan consensus over continuing Bush-era policies that damaged al-Qaeda while taking advantage of changed political circumstances at home and perceptions abroad...
Even as the Obama administration softens U.S. rhetoric, it continues a controversial policy of attacking suspected al-Qaeda and Taliban safe houses inside Pakistan's autonomous tribal region. A missile apparently launched by CIA Predator drone struck a house in Pakistan on Wednesday, killing a woman identified as the wife of Baitullah Mehsud, a Taliban commander linked to the assassination of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto....
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Maybe we’ll offer foreign aid to the Taliban, for starters.
Washington must couple the military strikes that have depleted al-Qaeda’s middle ranks with more sustained use of economic, diplomatic and cultural levers to diminish Islamist radicalization, he said, exercising “soft power” in ways that President George W. Bush came to embrace but had trouble carrying out....
Gee, Why did he have trouble carrying it out?
It couldn’t be because democrats were dragging their
feet and fighting him at every step?
“Obama’s Battle Against Terrorism To Go Beyond Bombs and Bullets”
So what’s next, buttons and bows?
“We cannot let the terror prism guide how we’re going to interact and be involved in different parts of the world.”
So, please tell me Mr. Super-Smart-Guy-Who-Knows-Better-Than-The-Rest-Of-US...
How exactly do you deal with places like the northern Arabian Gulf, the Southern Arabian Gulf, Mainland Africa, The Holy Land, and the Pacific and Indian Island nations without taking into account the social, political, and economic realities that can be seen no clearer than when observing them through the prism of active involved institutional Islamic Terrorism?
Obongo's father was a muzzie, by Islamic law that makes him one.
Man, why didn't anyone think of that before?
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