So this soft-thinking president wants us all to play mind-bending games, does he? So, from now on, I suppose ducks are really horses, and tables are really chairs. What has this president been smoking? – Mark
THE WASHINGTON TIMES: 'Jihadists' and 'global war' no longer acceptable terms
It's official. The U.S. is no longer engaged in a "war on terrorism." Neither is it fighting "jihadists" or in a "global war."
President Obama's top homeland security and counterterrorism official took all three terms off the table of acceptable words inside the White House during a speech Thursday at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank.
"The President does not describe this as a 'war on terrorism,'" said John Brennan, head of the White House homeland security office, who outlined a "new way of seeing" the fight against terrorism.
The only terminology that Mr. Brennan said the administration is using is that the U.S. is "at war with al Qaeda."
"We are at war with al Qaeda," he said. "We are at war with its violent extremist allies who seek to carry on al Qaeda's murderous agenda." >>> Jon Ward and Eli Lake, Copyright 2009 The Washington Times, LLC | Thursday, August 06, 2009
Hat tip: Jihad Watch
