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Champ Excoriates Republican Obsession With The Term 'Radical Islam'
 [HUFFPOO] WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama on Tuesday forcefully rebuked Republicans who have berated him for refusing to characterize lone wolf terror attacks by Muslim individuals as acts of "radical Islam."Speaking from the Treasury Department two days after a Muslim man shot 49 people to death at a gay nightclub in Orlando after declaring allegiance to the self-described Islamic State group, the president challenged his detractors to identify a single tangible benefit of adjusting his choice of words to describe the attack. "What exactly would using this label accomplish? What exactly would it change? Would it make ISIL less committed to try to kill Americans? Would it bring in more allies? Is there a military strategy that is served by this?" Obama asked rhetorically, using another name for the Islamic State. That he asks that question demonstrates the depth to which he doesn't understand the question... Wik: "Projection tends to come to the fore in normal people at times of crisis, personal or political but is more commonly found in the neurotic or psychotic in personalities functioning at a primitive level as in narcissistic personality disorder or borderline personality disorder." Using the label would be honest, calling a spade a spade. It might change the way a certain percentage of the population looks at the WoT and at Moslems in general, Islamists in particular. It wouldn't make ISIS less committed to killing Americans, but it might help a certain type of snowflake not to come down with the vapors when a terrorist eats a Hellfire. It might emphasize to some other governments that whatever our differences with them, we have a mutual interest in wiping the scourge of ISIS, al-Qaeda, and similar groups from the face of the earth. If you're going to do something, you should say what it is, which will get you more support for a policy if it makes sense, booed and hissed if it's stupid. Probably when the idea first came up Eisenhower and Churchill were going to invade via France. After awhile it was Normandy. Then it came down to dividing the beaches. Precision in terminology supported the tactics and strategy worked out at all levels. Posted by: Besoeker 2016-06-15 |
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