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2010-07-12 Home Front: WoT

Obama at odds with Petraeus doctrine on 'Islam'

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Posted by ryuge 2010-07-12 08:37|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 In a speech that also severed the Obama administration from President George W. Bush's "war on terror," Mr. Brennan also said: "The president's strategy is absolutely clear about the threat we face. Our enemy is not terrorism because terrorism is but a tactic. Our enemy is not terror because terror is a state of mind and, as Americans, we refuse to live in fear. Nor do we describe our enemy as jihadists or Islamists because jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam meaning to purify oneself of one's community."

Who writes this stuff? Seinfeld? "Yes, general. It's a war about nothing."

Posted by tu3031 2010-07-12 08:58|| 2010-07-12 08:58|| Front Page Top

#2 The leftists that are running this country are very sick people.

Posted by Kofi Flomp3256 2010-07-12 09:32|| 2010-07-12 09:32|| Front Page Top

#3 President Obama's chief national security adviser for counterterrorism, delivered a major policy address on defining the enemy. He laid out the White House policy of detaching any reference to Islam when referring to terrorists, be it al Qaeda, the Taliban or any other group.

This is weazel-worded, mealy-mouthed, and chicken-sh*tted PC. But then again, we have the first black-muslim president or is it just muslim president? This does nothing to win the war if you can't tell people who your enemy is. The American people are very aware of who our enemy is despite what donk Washington politicians say.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-07-12 09:55|| 2010-07-12 09:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Our enemy is not terrorism

In order to defeat this kind of enemy, they need to be crushed. Patton-style. Terrorists are their only weapon, as formidable as it is despicable. They will persist until the terrorists are uprooted, sprayed with Roundup, burned and burned again. Then and only then will they be away from our throats and back at our feet until the next time because Islam is the soil for this ideology, not terrorism.

Hussein, if you want to go after the root cause of terrorism, go after Islam.

Until we make that decision, we have to continually beat down the terrorists and their enablers and whatever else feeds them.

Posted by gorb 2010-07-12 10:29|| 2010-07-12 10:29|| Front Page Top

#5 When you have the top-dogs whistling in the graveyard it's no wonder moderate Muslims are reluctant to speak out.

Posted by Hammerhead 2010-07-12 11:18|| 2010-07-12 11:18|| Front Page Top

#6 detaching any reference to Islam when referring to terrorists. The man in the oval office is Muslim. That is why he changed his name from Barry to Barack Hussein.

Posted by wr 2010-07-12 11:35|| 2010-07-12 11:35|| Front Page Top

#7 A good Muslim in the Oval office would definitely replace the Mission to Mars with the Mission to Muslims...

Posted by Kofi Flomp3256 2010-07-12 11:54|| 2010-07-12 11:54|| Front Page Top

#8 The war on terror(ism) was a massive hint that the war in Iraq was about denying the Islamists a tactic, i.e. uscking them into a war against conventional military forces abroad, rather than fighting a police action in our countries.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2010-07-12 12:03|| 2010-07-12 12:03|| Front Page Top

#9
...jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam...

Yes it is, and your refusal to acknowledge it when you see it is quite frightening.

Posted by Parabellum 2010-07-12 12:56|| http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/ 2010-07-12 12:56|| Front Page Top

#10 Strong horse, weak horse.

Posted by lex 2010-07-12 12:58|| 2010-07-12 12:58|| Front Page Top

#11 "I'm not a politician. I mostly just hurt people and break things."

Posted by mojo 2010-07-12 15:20|| 2010-07-12 15:20|| Front Page Top

#12 Pride goes before the fall.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-07-12 16:18|| 2010-07-12 16:18|| Front Page Top

#13 Grom, whaddaya mean by pride? Idiocy, pure, unadulterated idiocy.

Posted by twobyfour 2010-07-12 16:31|| 2010-07-12 16:31|| Front Page Top

#14 Hubris, I mean hubris.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-07-12 16:48|| 2010-07-12 16:48|| Front Page Top

#15 This is a war of ideology. If we don't even recognizing the enemies ideology how can we defeat it?

We should have branded the enemies ideology. Islamic Fascism, Fascist Islam, Imperialist Islam, anti-Western Islam, Intolerant Islam, pretty much any adjective that describes the enemy and is difficult for people to support.

Posted by rjschwarz 2010-07-12 17:52|| 2010-07-12 17:52|| Front Page Top

#16 rjschwarz, early on it was called Islamo-fascism. But all sorts of people had fits that Islam was being named and shamed. Hence the "War on Terrorism", which didn't mention the religion of the terrorists... and President Bush's insistence that Islam is a religion of peace, when he saw all the evidence to the contrary.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-07-12 20:25|| 2010-07-12 20:25|| Front Page Top

#17 Islamo-fascism came from Christopher Hitchens. The government never used the term.

Posted by rjschwarz 2010-07-12 21:30|| 2010-07-12 21:30|| Front Page Top

#18 #10: Strong horse, weak horse. Posted by: lex|| 2010-07-12 12:58 |

In "President" O'Bumble's case, no horse.

Posted by Old Patriot 2010-07-12 22:16|| 2010-07-12 22:16|| Front Page Top

#19 Saw horse.

Posted by gorb 2010-07-12 23:54|| 2010-07-12 23:54|| Front Page Top

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