On arrival pleasantries were exchanged... but what was he really thinking?
Posted on 06/11/2010 9:51:20 PM PDT by pissant
President Obama's top counterterrorism adviser knows very little about terrorism, and that's scary for America.
John Brennan, deputy national security adviser for counterterrorism and homeland security, asserted in a speech last month that the United States cannot be at war with terrorism because terrorism is only a "tactic." Terrorism, however, is also a strategy and method, with a long history and extensive theoretical literature. This is why it is an "-ism" and not simply "terror." It is bewildering that Mr. Brennan would make such a glaring error on such a fundamental concept.
Mr. Brennan also asserted that "violent extremists" are victims of "political, economic and social forces." This dense statement implies that counterterrorism should focus not on terrorists themselves but the underlying causes that purportedly "victimized" them. It's similar to the discredited argument that the way to fight urban crime is through big-government social programs rather than putting more police on the beat. Making terrorists into victims also legitimates their grievances, which is a strange way to fight them.
Mr. Brennan's curious views may be part of a larger move by the O Force to redefine terrorism. According to Michele Flournoy, undersecretary of defense for policy, an effort is under way to revise counterterrorism strategy. Last week, at a speech at the Center for a New American Security, she said, "one of the discussions we're having in that context is what are the root causes of extremism."
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How absolutely STUPID were the gullible voters in 2008?? We will be repairing our great country for decades.
That’s what happens when we put up a hapless RINO. Ask Dole and Ford about that too.
How so? Over 43% of 'Americans" think Obama is doing a good job!
There, fixed it.
You said all that need be said, but I have a wish: that we might some day watch the portrait of “Dorian Gray Obama” rot and crumble before our eyes. His evil must show somewhere some time.
are victims of “political, economic and social forces
Does that mean that minorities in America would be justified in carrying out violence to solve the past injustices? It sounds like he is trying to push an idea that could be “throw more money at the problem.”
are victims of “political, economic and social forces
Does that mean that minorities in America would be justified in carrying out violence to solve the past injustices? It sounds like he is trying to push an idea that could be “throw more money at the problem.”
Frankly, the Bush Administration started this nonsense. They spoke about a “war on terror”.
WTF is a “war on terror”? Is it censorship of the Friday the 13th movies? Are we going to seek and kill Freddie Kruger?
The damn war is not on feelings- terror.
When you sacrifice American blood and treasure in war, and that includes domestic law enforcement protecting us from enemies at home, a perquisite should be to at least honestly name the enemy.
It’s a war against a violent ideology/religion that has declared war on us. The enemy is those who make war by any means in the name of Islam.
This pathetic Administration is just taking to a greater extreme what Bush started by pretending our real enemy away.
I heard Andrew McCarthy, who prosecuted the blind sheik, on Bill Bennett, state that jihad is actually the means by which Sharia is imposed.
You’re right, Steve Emerson states Chertoff prohibited use of the term “Islamic extremism” from 2006 on.
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