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

[Morton K. Brussel]

That Moyers or his guests used that phrase does not contradict what  
I've said.
--mkb

On Jan 30, 2009, at 10:19 PM, John W. wrote:

>
> 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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