[browardchad]

If we are in fact ( and NOT of our own accord ) at war with most of Islam, refusing to recognise that fact is basically a psychotic reaction. Make believe is not a sustainable strategy for defence.

We're at war with Islam, the ideology. By using the term "characterize" I think Snerfling was conceding that point. The strategy is to at least attempt to separate non-observant (i.e. non-fundamentalist) Muslims from the jihadist ideology.

In many ways it psychotic, but then again, so is fundamentalist Islam.

[Kozak]

Thats fine. The problem is getting the enemy to believe the propaganda, without conning ourselves. If I really believed that the administration was just blowing smoke at them I could live with it. I'm afraid that too many of our countrymen who don't get informed are believing the spin.