Posted on 03/26/2007 7:23:41 AM PDT by 3AngelaD
The "war on terror" has created a culture of fear in America. The Bush administration's elevation of these three words into a national mantra since the horrific events of 9/11 has had a pernicious impact on American democracy, on America's psyche and on U.S. standing in the world. Using this phrase has actually undermined our ability to effectively confront the real challenges we face from fanatics who may use terrorism against us.
The damage these three words have done -- a classic self-inflicted wound -- is infinitely greater than any wild dreams entertained by the fanatical perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks when they were plotting against us in distant Afghan caves. The phrase itself is meaningless. It defines neither a geographic context nor our presumed enemies. Terrorism is not an enemy but a technique of warfare -- political intimidation through the killing of unarmed non-combatants.
But the little secret here may be that the vagueness of the phrase was deliberately (or instinctively) calculated by its sponsors. Constant reference to a "war on terror" did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear. Fear obscures reason, intensifies emotions and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue...
The atmosphere generated by the "war on terror" has encouraged legal and political harassment of Arab Americans (generally loyal Americans) for conduct that has not been unique to them. A case in point is the reported harassment of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) for its attempts to emulate, not very successfully, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Some House Republicans recently described CAIR members as "terrorist apologists" who should not be allowed to use a Capitol meeting room for a panel discussion....
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ZB is nuts.
What a pantload. Every time Bush has tried to call this war by its true name - a war on Islamist extremism - liberal buds of Zbignut shriek racism. Which is why we have been unable to call this war by what it is.
It's the evil Joos!
Zbignut apparently thinks just like his former boss.
Not me. It's political hype talk like war on poverty or war on drugs.
I'm not worried about people who have never built up a world class military anything, when they have to resort to suicide bombers in cars, improvised devices and stolen planes for missiles, what's to worry. Now that they are fighting each other, let's get out of the way.
This guy is out of his mind. If I remember correctly, the Administration tried "The War Against Muslim Extremism", which is correct, but the libs went into a fit.
So, what should we call a non-governmental, international extremist movement, Zbiggy?
Advice from failed Secretary of State.
"War on Terror" is something of a misnomer, and does not address the real enemy - Islamic militancy. Islam itself is not the enemy, only those who are acting supposedly in the name of Islam, and being ruthless in enforcing their demands upon the rest of the world, including non-militant Muslims.
To repeat, restate, and reiterate, most Muslims are in far greater danger from these militant jihadist Muslims, than they are from all the non-Muslims in the entire world.
The vagueness of the phrase "war on terror" was calculated to replace the more accurate phrase "war with Islam", which cannot be spoken and survive politically.
One of my roommates studied with Brzezinski as his honors tutor at Harvard back when Brzezinski was a young man. He seemed pretty bright. He was supposed to be the second Kissinger.
I think Jimmy Carter must have unscrewed his head and siphoned his brains out, or something like that, because he certainly hasn't been right ever since he started working for Mr. Peanut. Or maybe he spent too much time among liberal intellectuals and caught the disease.
IMHO most of the terror in the world today is a direct result of this clown and his fearless leader Clusterf*ck Carter.
OSTRICH ALERT
On November 4, 1979, Iranian students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, seizing the staff. They demanded the extradition of the deposed Shah of Iran from the United States, where he was receiving cancer treatment. Iran's revolutionary government, headed by the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, a conservative Muslim leader, supported the students, calling the embassy "a den of spies."
Female and African-American hostages were released within the first month, and one other hostage was released months later, due to illness. The remaining 52 were held hostage for 444 days. They were finally released on January 20, 1981, the day Jimmy Carter's successor, Ronald Reagan, was inaugurated.
During their long ordeal, the hostages became a national obsession. Revisit four days from the crisis: view news footage and read individual reactions to see how Americans voiced their anger, despair, and faith.
A very apt label, and CAIR proves it accurate every time they speak.
May they wipe their collective a$$ with the same hand with which they eat.*
*Cultural reference to hygiene among a people who have never availed themselves of corn cobs or the Sears catalog, let alone toilet paper.
Yup...He and D.Rockefeller formed Trilateral Commission,
among current members GHWB, Clintoon, Cheney and wife...
http://www.trilateral.org/memb.htm
No, 9/11 has had a pernicious impact on American democracy, America's psyche. Leftist moonbat lies, trashing of the nation, lies of media and giving aid to the terrorists has had an effect on the USA standing in the world. The war on terror has prevented another 9/11 thus far, much to the dismay of media and leftist moonbats.
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