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Headlines : "War on Terror"Bush's 'Global War on Radicals'
George W. Bush is laying the groundwork for a wider war in the Middle East by stretching the parameters of the “global war on terrorism” to add to his enemies list what he calls “radicals and extremists.” The change makes the struggle so amorphous that Bush theoretically could strike at anyone he doesn’t like whether there’s a credible link to international terrorism or not. The word shift also portends an endless war between the United States and the world’s one billion Muslims.
[Posted By ShiftShapers]Republished from Consortium News
The United States will never win the “war on terror,” in part, because George W. Bush keeps applying elastic definitions to the enemy, most recently expanding the conflict into a war against Muslim “radicals and extremists.”
With almost no notice in Official Washington, Bush has inserted this new standard for judging who’s an enemy as he lays the groundwork for a wider conflict in the Middle East and a potentially endless world war against many of the planet’s one billion adherents to Islam.
Indeed, it could be argued that the “war on terror” has now morphed into the “war on radicals,” allowing Bush to add the likes of Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and the leaders of Syria and Iran to his lengthening international enemies list.
Bush’s twists and turns in defining the enemy in the “war on terror” started more than five years ago, in the days immediately after the 9/11 attacks. Amid the nation’s anguish, Bush spoke in grandiloquent and quasi-religious terms, vowing to “rid the world of evil,” a patently absurd task that never received the ridicule it deserved.
But Bush then settled on a more practical aim, defeating “terrorist groups of global reach.” Though that formulation still presented some problems…
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Bush the ‘Extremist’
Indeed, many people around the world consider Bush – if not a “terrorist” – at least a “radical” and an “extremist,” representing not traditional conservative American principles but rather a radical and extremist view of presidential power that includes his presumed right to invade any country he wishes around the world.
Maybe he’ll kill himself if we’re lucky
presumed right to invade any country he wishes around the world.
that’s not very “radical” or “extreme” compared to the history of US “interventions” and invasions around the world.
unfortunately, it’s pretty standard.
Bush’s vision of the future also means the United States must turn its back on the Founding Fathers, who were considered “radicals” and “extremists” in their own age because they rejected the “divine right of kings” and insisted that all people are created equal and are endowed with “unalienable rights.”
insisted that all people are created equal and are endowed with “unalienable rights.”
All people except wimmens and coloreds.
“Civilians” will be next.
insisted that all people are created equal and are endowed with “unalienable rights.“
as EG points out, this excluded women and blacks, but also Native Americans and propertyless whites. you had to be a property-owning male to get any say in the “democracy” of America’s “Founding Fathers.” we’re taught to romanticize and idealize them in our American schools, but please, let’s be realistic.