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The enemy that dare not be named
[Wash Times] Major media outlets are having a field day attacking Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to President Donald Trump. His offense has been naming "radical Islam" as the enemy. For example, The New York Times carried an op-ed on Feb. 24 by Steven Simon and Daniel Benjamin, both former Obama foreign policy officials, titled "The Islamophobic Huckster in the White House." It was peppered with inaccuracies. This I know from having first met Mr. Gorka in Budapest some 15 years ago and from having lectured with him a number of times in both military and civilian venues since then.

Contrary to the op-ed, he does not say that Islam is the enemy, but Islamism, or that the current conflict is "a historic clash of civilizations," a thesis I have heard him rebut in front of a large Muslim audience. As a sign of desperation, others have stooped to the level of reductio ad Hitlerum, suggesting that Mr. Gorka is an anti-Semite for his former political associations in his native Hungry. If this charge were not so noxious, it would be amusing since he is unabashedly pro-Israel.
...like most of the Trump administration including President Trump himself, both openly pro-Israel and accused of antisemitism.
How is one to understand the hysteria surrounding this issue?
Loss of power and privileges? Interruption in the long march of the revolution?
It reminds me of another era in which I was a participant as a special assistant to President Ronald Reagan. In the early Reagan years, anyone who spoke of the Soviet Union in the same manner as the president was considered a dangerous person. Recall that in 1983 Mr. Reagan named the Soviet Union an "evil empire." He said it was an error to consider the conflict "a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong and good and evil." The press and people in academe generally reacted with horror at this crazy cowboy. If you named America’s enemy, you became the enemy.

Posted by: Besoeker 2017-03-05
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