President Barack Obama is replacing the "global war on terror" with a new strategy more narrowly focused on Al-Qaeda and relying more on a broader effort to engage the Muslim world, a top aide said Thursday.Our standing is just fine when they fear and respect us, and it sure doesn't look like Obama is generating any respect around the world, especially with our enemies. Besides, what happened to all that capital he expended apologizing to the Muslim world a couple months ago?
John Brennan, Obama's chief counter-terrorism advisor, said Al-Qaeda remains a "persistent and evolving threat" to the United States and is being aggressively targeted by the new administration.
"But describing our efforts as a 'global war' only plays into the warped narrative that Al-Qaeda propagates," Brennan said in comments prepared for delivery to a think tank here.
"It plays into the misleading and dangerous notion that the US is somehow in conflict with the rest of the world," he said.
He said Obama was bringing to the issue "a fundamentally new and more effective approach" by attacking the longer-term problem of Muslim extremism through diplomacy and political and economic strategies.
"Indeed, the counterinsurgency lessons learned in Iraq and Afghanistan apply equally to the broader fight against extremism: we cannot shoot ourselves out of this challenge," he said.
"We can take out all the terrorists we want -- their leadership and their foot soldiers. But if we fail to confront the broader political, economic, and social conditions in which extremists thrive, then there will always be another recruit in the pipeline, another attack coming downstream," he said.
Brennan outlined ambitious goals for promoting economic and political development in poor, conflict-ridden regions of the world as well diplomatic efforts to restore US standing among Muslims.
Of course to Obama and his mob, the real enemies are terrorists, the ChiComs, the Norks, Russia or Venezuela.
It's you.
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