Senior WH Counterterrorism Advisor To Announce New Terror Strategy

The Washington Post:

The U.S. government must fundamentally redefine the struggle against terrorism, replacing the "war on terror" with a campaign combining all facets of national power to defeat the enemy, John O. Brennan, President Obama's senior counterterrorism adviser, said Wednesday.

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[AngieMom57]

Meat-eating is the small print; war is the blown-up picture." --Sri Chitrabhanu

[raptor]

"DEAR EDITOR: I am 8 years old.
"Some of my little friends say there is no War on Terrorism.
"Papa says, 'If you see it in THE HUFFINGTON POST it's so.'
"Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus?

VIRGINIA, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except [what] they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds.

Yes, VIRGINIA, there is a War on Terror. It exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion do not exist, and you know that they do not, otherwise they would abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! How dreary would be the world if there were no War on Terrorism. It would be as dreary as if there were Peace. There would be childlike faith then, poetry, romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have enjoyment, in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be exist.

Not believe in a War on Terror! You might as well not believe in fairies! Or a War on Arson, or a War on Theft, or a war on Drugs. Oh, wait. [Editor’s note: Don’t push it.]

With apologies to Francis Pharcellus Church and The Sun.

[Whitley2009]

Alright, let him in, BUT he has to give us the goods on Cheney and the Bush-Six.

[Coinyer101]

This is the same guy that spied on Americans, domestically ,and illegally under cheeney. He should be on trial with him, too!

[Coinyer101]

Ahhh, Mr. Brennan ,the former crim inal from the Bush administration, that our current leader decided to appoint to this position over protests by the 'left'. Everytime this guy makes the news ,I'm calling the President out on it......,He made this choice, 'stoopidly'....,

[springer23]

Sounds like the same exact strategy except they are going to take out all the scarey words. Maybe the libs can lower their dosage of xanax now.

And maybe the "Terrorists" will like us now...yay!

[jsgaetano]

We'd see huge savings just in the yearly budget of diapers and rubber sheets to conservatives!

[Subterfuge]

Yeah but they'll have to spend money to reprint a whole new batch of signs and t-shirts to include one or two easily remembered words for them to grunt over and over.

[jsgaetano]

Hopefully the new Anti-Terrorism strategy involves transfering large groups of conservatives over to GTMO.

We won't know what they know until we start getting them 'boarded.

[Emerald1943]

Judge Sotomayor is now Justice Sotomayor!!

[jsgaetano]

It's too bad she isn't Chief Justice.

[Whinger]

About time the so called terrorism experts got their heads out where the sun shines!

Enough of the cannon fodder strategies, we have the technology and special tactical forces to engage in effective surgical operations and thus minimize attacks on service personnel on the ground.

[lightningbolt]

I doubt the new strategy will do anything about the economic terrorists in JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, etc. who have caused more damage than anyone else to the U.S.

[Emerald1943]

C0-sign!

[oldguydude]

That's right. Let's not insult the terrorists! We might hurt their feelings. The Obama administration is making the country vunerable and complacent.

[Emerald1943]

Don't you have a town hall meeting to disrupt?

[oldguydude]

That's right. Create a false diversion to avoid the subject. Afraid of little debate?

[yankee452]

Pragmatism....

...imagine that !

[RNAngel20]

No more war on terrorism? Aren't we still fighting the terrorists in Afhghanistan?

[rascalish]

Uh oh. This will bring out the Cheney's for sure.

[MajorKong]

Terror is a tactic.

You might as well declare a global war on flanking maneuvers.