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.
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Mr. Obama may not be engaged in a “war on terrorism” or fighting a “global war” against “jihadists”, but I sure as hell still am!
Once again proving that if you want something done right, you had better do it yourself!
Hooray for Obama, I am glad someone is finally catching onto the issues with “war on terrorism, jihadists and global war”; I am so tired of hearing those particular terms. I do not think we should ignore it, but sinking a ton of money into catching people who are breeding like cockroaches is not the answer. How can someone fight terrorism when no one can agree to what terrorism really is, when I hear the word terrorism I think of two people fighting and one of them feeling terrorized by the other. Terrorism among the many definitions is what you want it to be when you want it to be, it is whatever is going on in someone’s life or in society. I got so frustrated every time I heard the Bush administration mention war on terrorism; the Bush administration used the term terrorism to keep the American people living in fear so he could conduct his illegal activities hoping no one would notice. As long as he had the American people focused on terrorism, he was creating his own form of terrorism right under our noses. Terrorism will never go away, terrorists continue to breed like cockroaches just the same as drug dealers do, we have been fighting drugs for years and there is still no solution, we just keep putting band aides on the issue to keep it from getting larger. I think that the U.S. should concentrate their efforts in cleaning up the American budget, then look at how they can tackle the terrorism issue if in fact that’s what it really is, or is it common criminals using their religious beliefs to kill innocent people or chase the U.S. out of the Middle East? We have never been welcomed there. Our troops are spread so thin throughout the world, who is watching the homeland? I think a new strategy is needed in catching these so called terrorist, the U.S. needs to regroup and think of a new strategy, in the meantime get the American people back to work and stop using our money to boost foreign economies. Let the terrorist come to us, if we focused the same amount of energy to come up with a new strategy as we do chasing someone we may never catch, we would have caught them already.
Another issue we should be looking at is the military installations located overseas that are no longer needed. We have local nationals working on our bases in several countries who have CAC cards, which give them access to our databases. I would think that is a security issues, especially not knowing for sure if these local nationals are connected with extremists groups. The unfortunate thing is that we usually find out when it is to late and our information has already been breeched. Imagine all the money we could be saving by closing the bases that are not needed anymore, and then we could finance the Health Care Program. I think Obama should go through each interagency and reevaluate what we really need and what is wasting tax dollars.
man, i’m so glad ‘they’ got the terminology right, i can’t imagine calling it what it really is. war on terrorism sounds so scary don’t you think, now i can feel all warm and cozy at night knowing we’re just ‘at war with alqaeda’, what a bunch of idiots.
tom f