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| New Counterterrorism Strategy Unveiled By White House Officia | |
| 2011-06-30 | |
| President Barack Obama's top adviser on homeland security unveiled a new national strategy for counterterrorism Tuesday, formalizing actions taken over the past two and a half years. The strategy also lays out a vision for U.S. operations going forward given the death of Osama bin Laden and the changing political climate across the Middle East. Al Qaeda, "its affiliates and its adherents" will be the main focus of operations, said John Brennan,
"This is the first counterterrorism strategy that focuses on the ability of al Qaeda and its network to inspire people in the United States to attack us from within," he said in a speech at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies. "Indeed, this is the first counterterrorism strategy that designates the homeland as a primary area of emphasis in our counterterrorism efforts." Signaling a shift in emphasis from the policies of President George W. Bush, who once spoke of a "crusade" to defeat al Qaeda, Brennan said the strategy was not aimed at the group's "grandiose vision of global domination through a violent Isalmic caliphate." That vision, he said is "absurd." "We are not going to organize our counterterrorism politics against a feckless delusion that is never going to happen," he said. Instead, as President Obama carries out his drawdown plan for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Brennan said the United States would no longer consider its best offense to be deploying large armies abroad, but instead, "delivering targeted, surgical pressure to the groups that threaten us." | |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #1 "delivering targeted, surgical pressure to the groups that threaten us." aka "Tomahawks on Tents". |
| Posted by: Pappy 2011-06-30 11:39 |