Posted on 04/08/2010 4:20:42 PM PDT by Shellybenoit
"Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril. When you are ignorant of the enemy, but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal. If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain in every battle to be in peril."-Sun Tzu, The Art of War.
Sun Tzu is credited with writing those words 2,500 years ago, but they could have been written as a warning to President Obama and his National Security advisers as they refuse to acknowledge who we are fighting against, Islamist extremists. Instead, this administration believes that by letting the Islamists "off the hook" by calling our enemies something else, the rest of the Muslim world will start embracing the United States.
Yesterday reports leaked out of Washington that the Obama administration that the administration may change the National Security Strategy, a document which is exactly what it is titled a document which lays out our security concerns and strategies to keep us safe. The proposed changes will exclude use of terms which might "offend" our enemies such as Islamic Radicalism used in the paragraph below:
(Excerpt) Read more at yidwithlid.blogspot.com ...
I can’t say what I’m really thinking.
We couldn’t possibly call them Islamic Radicals! I mean, they’re Islamic, and radicals, but we wouldn’t want them to be angry with us while they’re cutting our heads off...right?
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