Posted on 05/27/2010 1:15:11 PM PDT by Schnucki
President Barack Obama's administration will focus on homegrown extremists in a new security strategy to be unveiled on Thursday.
Mr Obama will stress that US military superiority must be matched by muscular diplomacy and all the tools of statecraft, from development aid to intelligence gathering.
The released of the document comes as the United States continues to have a huge foreign military commitment, in Iraq and Afghanistan. The US is also facing new terror threats in a world destabilised by the worst economic meltdown since the 1930s.
The document will be closely read for signs that Mr Obama has adjusted his policy of offering dialogue to US foes like Iran and North Korea, which has yet to bear fruit, and will come against a backdrop of his nuclear non-proliferation effort.
Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, will on Thursday make a speech at the Brookings Institution, laying out diplomatic and military aspects of the strategy and national security advisor James Jones is due to weigh in later.
For the first time, the government strategy document, which lays down a doctrine for national security policy, is likely to focus attention on the threat posed by homegrown, radical extremists.
Following a spate of attacks or near misses - at Fort Hood military base last year and in Times Square, New York, this month - the administration appears to have reframed the matrix of threats to US national security.
"We've seen an increasing number of individuals here in the United States become captivated by extremist activities or causes," said John Brennan, deputy national security advisor for counter-terrorism and homeland security.
"The president's national security strategy explicitly recognises the threat to the United States posed by individuals radicalised here at home," Mr Brennan said Wednesday at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Only internal troublemakers.
The mudslime extremists and black panthers will be safe.
This should be named the “Beware White Men with Guns” policy.
Maybe Mr. Obama can start with Malik Zulu Shabazz and his open call for a race war?
And there’s the answer as to why he’s not sending more troops to protect our border - he’s saving them to use against those pesky home-grown Tea Partiers.
Secure for whom?
Radical extremists like pro-lifers, Christians, and those with jobs.
This administration is starting to make me reconsider my former efforts to go “off the grid.” Call me an extremist if you want, but being self-sustainable and knowledgeable of all of my potential fault lines makes it easier to defend myself.
They’re going to start with data mining from sites like Facebook and Twitter. Then they’ll move to political forums like FR. Once they’ve compiled a list, they’ll compare it to Federal databases such as ATF, FBI, CIA, NSA, etc. If they can get permission, they’ll likely get into State records as well. If they can get effective profiles of the higher profile targets, it’s almost certain they’ll either imprison or assassinate those who pose the biggest threat. With leadership dead or out of the way, there’s nothing stopping the Liberals from enslaving people in groups based on political expedience.
It’s about time we consider the worst. This asshole has 2.5 more years in DC, and I am not convinced that when that time is up the US we know will exist any longer.
Bowing to Saudi shieks; standing there nodding while foreign leaders trash America on our soil; threatening sanctions against Iran...and then threatening yet again and again if they don't comply; refusing to acknowledge Hamas and Hezbollah as terrorist orgs; etc.
Take this guy off teleprompter and immediately see how truly dumb he is. Jack Cashill, in his latest post, puts some interesting perspective on the lack of intelligence of both Obama’s.
When they come for the registered sex offenders, better start packing...
Starting their own businesses; exercizing their 2nd amendment rights; attending Tea Parties; watching FNC; supporting AZ immigration law....
“Homegrown extremists??” No doubt he means conservatives and NRA members.
Moo-slim Jihadists who want to kill Americans are his buddies. Americans with guns and jobs his sworn enemies.
He’s looking to take action against
“the ungovernable”
DHS Report on Rightwing Extremism
I think we've already been told who will be considered 'extremists.'
Interesting comparison.
See my post 17.
Right on!
They're the ones who took out the World Trade Center and planted the bomb at Times Square!
It's about time!
Prolifers are the number one domestic terrorists according to the Obama administration. What’s next? RICO again?
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