US no longer at war with 'terrorism', says top official

Source: Economic Times (India)

The US is no longer engaged in a "war on terrorism"; neither is it fighting "jihadists" nor locked in a "global war" as the Obama administration's top homeland security and counterterrorism official has called the terms coined by the Bush administration as unacceptable.

It is now solely a "war with Al Qaeda" and its violent extremist allies, John Brennan, who heads the White House homeland security office, said during a speech on Thursday at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank.

... According to Brennan, to say the US is fighting "jihadists" is wrong because it is using "a legitimate term, 'jihad', meaning to purify oneself or to wage a holy struggle for a moral goal", which "risks giving these murderers the religious legitimacy they desperately seek but in no way deserve."

"Worse, it risks reinforcing the idea that the United States is somehow at war with Islam itself," Brennan was quoted as saying.

He said the administration will not use the phrase 'war on terrorism' "because terrorism is but a tactic - a means to an end, which in Al Qaeda's case is global domination by an Islamic caliphate."


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Almost as impossible as being at war against substances.

Not nearly as impossible as being a republican with a brain, though.

about oil and the oilmen who were running our country than about our nation. They hate the bush cartel crime family.

I was mortified that after we finished off nouns, we'd move on to adverbs.

The only way the bu$h regime and the republicans know how to govern is by fear.

http://www.doomdaily.com/2009/bbc-admit-al-qaeda-never-existed-video/

Even the British commanders said..they searched all over Afghanistan and found no Al Qaeda.

How can we be at war with something that is just as made up as the wmd's that Saddam supposedly had? It has all been a big fat pack of lies. We have been had and for this...we have let them destroy the Constitution.

say it is at any one time.

I'm still waiting for anyone to say why we are actually still in Afghanistan and who are the people we keep bombing.

K&R

The previous policy implied that we were at war with Hamas, Hezbollah and every other group designated as terrorist, even though they were not committing acts of terror against the US.

The world is right-side up again. :)

Pro health insurance reformists etc as the possible victims.

I mean, one man pulled the trigger, but would he have done that if there was not so much support for the nutwing point of view?

and can we repeal the unPATRIOTic Act and the MCA?

Put your money where your mouth is, or STFU.

the unconstitutional legislation of the WoT are done away with, it's just words.

:cry:

is terrorism still at war with us?