In fact, it worked and George Bush won the War On Terror using that strategy, but it simply ignores the reality of where we are and how we got here.
President Obama willfully reversed George Bush's victories in the War On Terror and has spent the last 8 years nurturing and legitimizing the cause of Radical Islam and it's grudge against the West as well as violent Jihad in general.
We tried the kinder and gentler approach to combating terror under Bush and our troops paid a horrendous price to persevere and win using that strategy, but under Obama the Islamic world has rejected the conciliatory approach and has pursued direct and open confrontation.
The idea behind the strategy of not mentioning Islamic terror and Jihad is to prevent the radicalization of the Muslim world. This was an operative strategy in the year 2002 because the Islamic world had not yet been radicalized or mobilized to Jihad.
Under President Obama, and with Obama's direct encouragement, the Islamic world has already radicalized and mobilized and is now in direct combat with the rest of the world, so the barn door is open and the horse has already left the barn.
George Bush largely defeated the concept of Radical Islam as a world wide military/political movement before it got rolling. Now the Jihadi have the ball rolling on world wide Jihad so we must defeat it as a military force on the march, not as an emerging mass movement trying to gather traction and reach critical mass because Obama has already enabled the Jihad to get traction and reach world wide critical mass to wage war on the non Muslim World .
LOL. You left off the sarcasm tag.
There just are no words.
Bush’s mistake is the same as yours. You aren’t seeing the Saudi’s for who they actually are, our enemy. We are at war with Islam. Al Quaida is the violent enemy, the Saudi’s are the non violent enemy. They both are fighting for Islam and I won’t be surprised if the win.