GSAVE [27 Jul 2005|10:45am] [ mood | imploded ] [ music | my brain imploding ] The Global War on Terror is over. Woo hoo! However, the Global Struggle Against Violent Extremism is just beginning. I can't improve upon this excerpt from Slate.com: ...the White House and the Pentagon are just now coming around to the idea that the struggle is as much ideological as military? This wasn't obvious, say, three or four years ago? Apparently not. Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker, the Times reporters who co-authored the article, note: Administration and Pentagon officials say the revamped campaign has grown out of meetings of President Bush's senior national security advisers that began in January, and it reflects the evolution in Mr. Bush's own thinking nearly four years after the Sept. 11 attacks. [Italics added.] It took four years for the president of the United States to realize that fighting terrorism has a political component? It took six months for his senior advisers to retool a slogan? We are witnessing that rare occasion when the phrase "I don't know whether to laugh or cry" can be uttered without lapsing into cliché. I know i feel safer. 2 comments|post comment

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