THE TELEGRAPH: President Barack Obama's administration will focus on homegrown extremists in a new security strategy to be unveiled on Thursday.
Mr Obama will stress that US military superiority must be matched by muscular diplomacy and all the tools of statecraft, from development aid to intelligence gathering.
The released [sic] of the document comes as the United States continues to have a huge foreign military commitment, in Iraq and Afghanistan. The US is also facing new terror threats in a world destabilised by the worst economic meltdown since the 1930s.
The document will be closely read for signs that Mr Obama has adjusted his policy of offering dialogue to US foes like Iran and North Korea, which has yet to bear fruit, and will come against a backdrop of his nuclear non-proliferation effort.
Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, will on Thursday make a speech at the Brookings Institution, laying out diplomatic and military aspects of the strategy and national security advisor James Jones is due to weigh in later.
For the first time, the government strategy document, which lays down a doctrine for national security policy, is likely to focus attention on the threat posed by homegrown, radical extremists.
Following a spate of attacks or near misses - at Fort Hood military base last year and in Times Square, New York, this month - the administration appears to have reframed the matrix of threats to US national security. >>> | Thursday, May 27, 2010
"Nor do we describe our enemy as jihadists or Islamists because jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam meaning to purify oneself or one's community." – Brennan
It is quite unbelievable that the White House refuses to get to grips with the fact that the Jihad is being waged against America and the West. To say that jihad is a legitimate tenet of Islam, meaning to purify oneself or one’s community is a lie. One BIG damn LIE, too! What Brennan describes is but ONE aspect of the jihad, and a MINOR one at that!
This is dissimulation of the facts at its worst. Moreover, America in particular and the West in general will never be victorious until they accept and come to terms with the true nature of the jihad: a fight to the death to make only Islam the accepted religion on earth, and Muhammad Allah’s final messenger.
Brennan and B. Hussein Obama are deluding themselves. More importantly, they are trying to pull the wool over the people's eyes. But then should we be surprised considering the president's Muslim roots? – © Mark
