[weikel]

Don't worry Dubya always thinks a few steps ahead he and his team know what they are doing Im sure they have good reasons for not defining this as a war against Islam( at least in its Wahabbi incarnation) yet.

[Southern Federalist]

Maybe because Bush wants to include North Korea in the global terrorism sweep? And Fatah is not really Islamist either - Arab Nazism with a little Marxist shine, rather.

[CJ Wolf]

There is darn good reason. It dates back to GW: "As the contempt of the religion of a country by ridiculing any of it's ceremonies, or affronting its ministers or votaries, has ever been deeply resented, you are to be particularly careful to restrain every officer and soldier from such imprudence and folly, and to punish every instance of it." - George Washington - The instructions to Colonel Arnold, setting out for Canada.