A makeover to disguise ugly US policy
06/13/05
After defeating al Qaeda, at least in their own minds, top officials of the Bush administration are now contemplating a war against 'violent extremism.' (I call it the WAVE.) Apparently, the already grandiose 'Global War on Terrorism' -- in bureaucratic jargon, the GWOT -- just wasn't extravagant enough for an administration that thinks really big. Although administration officials implicitly acknowledge the spreading conflagration of global Islamic jihad, they are oblivious to their own culpability in causing it. The real problem is that the administration, in permanent campaign mode even after reelection, has always regarded the GWOT as a political marketing gimmick, both at home and abroad...
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1522
from Independent Institute, by Ivan Eland
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
After defeating al Qaeda, at least in their own minds, top officials of the Bush administration are now contemplating a war against 'violent extremism.' (I call it the WAVE.) Apparently, the already grandiose 'Global War on Terrorism' -- in bureaucratic jargon, the GWOT -- just wasn't extravagant enough for an administration that thinks really big. Although administration officials implicitly acknowledge the spreading conflagration of global Islamic jihad, they are oblivious to their own culpability in causing it. The real problem is that the administration, in permanent campaign mode even after reelection, has always regarded the GWOT as a political marketing gimmick, both at home and abroad...
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1522
from Independent Institute, by Ivan Eland
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 14. Jun, 16:17
