How Obama Can Win The DCITWoT: Blame America
Here we go again. Another liberal in the media has found a way to blame America: How Obama Can End the War On Terror by Mark Juergensmeyer
The first step in ending the War on Terror is to stop calling it “the war on terror.”
Henceforth, it shall be known as DCITWoT: Don’t Call It The War On Terror. Jihadis are LTAO.
Ever since 9/11, the Bush administration—supported by the news media—has endorsed the radical jihadi idea that the world is engaged in a great ideological struggle between two competing foes. But this has never been the case. The United States was attacked on 9/11, as it had been many times before and since, by a small band of extremists who cloaked their disdain for America’s global power in the language of religion and the images of cosmic war. They needed to be isolated and brought to justice for their misdeeds, not glorified as America’s global enemy.
Funny, because the radical Islamists DO actually think they are in a “great ideological struggle.”
It seems to me that there is a strategy for victory that does not require armed conquest. My suggestion is that the new administration can “win” the War on Terror in part by rethinking the nature of the conflict. Let me suggest five steps that the U.S. could take in a post-Bush era to bring the War on Terror to an end:
And, here comes the typical Blame America First leftist ideas!
1. Recognize that we are not confronting war but a war mindset. The radical Muslim war against the secular West has been a powerful idea, erupting from time to time in destructive acts of terrorism, but it is largely an idea. (it is? Explain 9/11, the first WTC bombing, the USS Cole, Kobar Towers, Nick Berg, July 7th bombings in England, Mumbai, Lockerbie, the riots in France with the burning cars, and so, so, so many terrorist attacks, not to mention those which failed or were stopped.)
2. Accept that America is the enemy because of what it does, not what it is. (no comment necessary)
3. Stop acting like an enemy. (no comment necessary)
4. Become a problem solver not a problem maker. (no comment necessary)
5. Take the moral high road and adhere to international standards of justice. (In other words, start being nice to the little jihadis.)
And people like Mark make up the strongest support layer for Obama. Hopefully, Obama won’t listen.
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Posted by William Teach on January 23, 2009 4:30 pm
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That’s really a despicable essay. Blame America leftism in full bloom.
I love seeing them take this tack, though. It ensures that the blame for the coming huge terror attack will drop squarely in the lap of Leftist America. Every Democrat, every member of academia, the MSM. They will own the body count wholly.
Think about this. If there had been a nuke in Los Angeles in say..2005. Every Dem, every lefty, every prof would have blamed George Bush. They would have blamed the fashion in which he framed the conflict, they would have blamed the CIA, Blackwater, Halliburton, anything Bush because he defined the conflict, he determined how we would engage. They fail to note the part where Bush’s strategies were 100% SUCCESSFUL in preventing further terror attacks, but they would rather feign outrage over the civil liberties of terrorists.
Now that Obama is radically departing from the Bush strategy, all terror attacks on US civilians and certainly on US soil, will be correctly blamed on him. I, among others, believe that the next attack will escalate greatly the violence of 9-11. If you track the pattern back, you see increasing organization, complexity, the next step is obviously widespread bioterror, chemical or nuclear attack. Obama and the other EU heads of state will have allowed Iran to develop a nuke by then, and he will certainly deploy it through his terror proxies. Obama and his party, having reframed the conflict in leftist terms (America is responsible, WE are the real terrorists, the Jews are evil) will be wholly responsible for the inevitable failure of that policy.
The above is not so much a coherent “strategy” as it is a Power Point presentation.
When Markie Mark was a snot-nose undergrad, I’ll bet he got a “C” in Speech Comm 101.
Power points 2,3,and 4 prove you are insane.Moreover, the days of Iam Okay your not and atomizing of ones feelings was over.
Just finished watching this on TCM and it seemed appropriate:
Was this trip necessary?
Scene: Late December 1944. Inside the American lines at the Battle of the Bulge. A Chaplin is speaking to assembled soldiers, answering the question whether the war was necessary.
“Let’s look at the facts. Nobody wanted this war but the Nazi’s. A great many people tried to deal with them. And a lot of them are dead. Millions have died for no other reason than the Nazis wanted them dead. So, in the final showdown there was nothing left to do except fight.
There’s a great lesson in this and those of us who’ve learned it the hard way aren’t going to forget it. We must never again let any force dedicated to a super race, or a super idea or a super anything become strong enough to impose itself upon a free world. We must be smart enough and tough enough in the beginning to put out the fire before it starts spreading. …So, yes this trip was necessary.
“As the years go by, a lot of people are going to forget but you won’t. And don’t ever let anyone ever tell you that you were a sucker to fight in the war against fascism.”
Battleground
(1949) Directed by William Wellman