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April 7, 2010
Willful Blindness: Obama Bans Islam, Jihad from National Security Strategy Document
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You just can't make this stuff up. Yesterday, nuclear weapons were removed from the national security equation, now it's "Islamic radicalism" and "jihad." Like Andy McCarthy suggests, it's nothing less than willful blindness, and the sequel is being written everyday in an administration near you.
From the AP:
President Barack Obama's advisers will remove religious terms such as "Islamic extremism" from the central document outlining the U.S. national security strategy and will use the rewritten document to emphasize that the United States does not view Muslim nations through the lens of terror, counterterrorism officials said.Read the rest here.The change is a significant shift in the National Security Strategy, a document that previously outlined the Bush Doctrine of preventative war and currently states: "The struggle against militant Islamic radicalism is the great ideological conflict of the early years of the 21st century."
The officials described the changes on condition of anonymity because the document still was being written, and the White House would not discuss it. But rewriting the strategy document will be the latest example of Obama putting his stamp on U.S. foreign policy, like his promises to dismantle nuclear weapons and limit the situations in which they can be used.
The revisions are part of a larger effort about which the White House talks openly, one that seeks to change not just how the United States talks to Muslim nations, but also what it talks to them about, from health care and science to business startups and education.
That shift away from terrorism has been building for a year, since Obama went to Cairo, Egypt, and promised a "new beginning" in the relationship between the United States and the Muslim world. The White House believes the previous administration based that relationship entirely on fighting terror and winning the war of ideas.
The AP notes that this change is a significant shift in the National Security Strategy, a document that previously outlined the Bush Doctrine of preventative war. And indeed it is, Obama's strategy can best be described as being based upon a doctrine of "our" assured destruction. When we can no longer name our enemy - militant Islam, or call them what they are - Islamic terrorists, we've naively and willfully blinded ourselves from the realities of the threat we are facing. Add-in the naive self-disarmament of the nuke policy he announced yesterday, and the likely effects are nothing short of jaw-dropping.
God help us all. Americans are day by day learning to regret the day Barack Hussein Obama was elected. We've gone from his destructive bailouts, auto company takeovers, and stimulus bills, to the government takeover of our health care system, to now the most self-destructive national security policy a nation could possibly adopt. The only question that remains is, will 2912 come soon enough!
Posted by Richard at April 7, 2010 7:23 AM
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