Put THIS On Your Bumper...
John Edwards's Irresponsible and Revealing AddressBy Peter Wehner
In a major foreign policy speech to the Council on Foreign Relations today, former Senator John Edwards said this:
"The core of this presidency has been a political doctrine that George Bush calls the 'Global War on Terror.' He has used this doctrine like a sledgehammer to justify the worst abuses and biggest mistakes of his administration... The war on terror is a slogan designed only for politics, not a strategy to make America safe. It's a bumper sticker, not a plan.
It has damaged our alliances and weakened our standing in the world... The 'war' metaphor has also failed because it exaggerates the role of only one instrument of American power—the military... we must move beyond the idea of a war on terror." (A link to the speech can be found here: http://johnedwards.com/news/speeches/20070523-cfr/ )
That would be one way to look at it. There are others...
Another view goes something like this: The global war on terror is not a "political doctrine" advanced by the Bush Administration or a bumper sticker slogan. Rather, it refers to an epic struggle we are engaged in against Islamic jihadists. These jihadists -- years before George W. Bush became president and years before Operation Iraqi Freedom -- publicly announced, through their fatwas, that they were at war against us.
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I'd like to move on beyond a war on terror, too, TRUST me.
I wish I'd never HEARD that term.
But I'm not an ostrich, and either is a terrorist, sadly.
Yes, what he said was blind and unconscionable. He doesn't have to believe Americans and American words; Edwards needs to listen to Al Sadr, Ahmadinejad, Awahiri, bin Laden etc. and what THEY have said they are going to do...
Here's a great business! Selling Edward's hair combs (stamped with his name), and Mr. Slick hair products.
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