[Peace-discuss] Re: Obama on "War on Terror"

[John W.]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Morton K. Brussel <brussel at illinois.edu>wrote:

The reports I've seen were recent. There could well have been a change…
> Or they may have overstated. --mkb


Unfortunately Carl seems to be right on this one.  I just got done watching
Bill Moyers.  Half of the show was devoted to a discussion of Obama's
perspective on the "War on Terror"; the recent (continuation of) bombing of
civilians in Pakistan by drones since he took office; a comparison of
McNamara's advice to LBJ about "bombing the North Vietnamese into
submission" with the current strategy in AfPak; the obvious historical
fallacy/folly of trying to impose a military solution on a political
problem; etc.  It's very discouraging.




> On Jan 30, 2009, at 8:26 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>
>  Friday , September 05, 2008
>>
>> O'REILLY: OK. Let's start with national security. Do you believe we're
>> in the middle of a War on Terror?
>>
>> OBAMA: Absolutely.
>>
>> O'REILLY: Who's the enemy?
>>
>> OBAMA: Al Qaeda, the Taliban, a whole host of networks that are bent on
>> attacking America, who have a distorted ideology, who have perverted the
>> faith of Islam, and so we have to go after them.
>>
>> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,417563,00.html
>
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