Doesn’t this tactic of "taking the fight to the extremists" just set up a theater for war and ensure that one entire region is devastated?
For what does this devastation occur and how can we Americans allow this tactic born out of fear to be the way we secure the world from extremism?
America does face extremism and it does face an enemy, but let us consider the fact that we have seen the enemy and the enemy could very well be us.
Obama may say as he did in his speech, “extremist ideology threatens our people and technology gives a handful of terrorists the potential to do us great harm,” but can we really focus on that line of reasoning without considering how American extremism threatens our people and how technology from the American military-industrial-complex gives a handful the potential to do great harm?
Too many seem to have a desire to cling to the neoconservative imperialist policies of the past, and isn’t that desire a bit extreme? And why do we feel the need to maintain what’s left of these policies which were executed with brutal inhumane consequences throughout the Bush Administration? For what?
Today, like Bush, Obama brought up this idea that his “single most important responsibility” was “to keep the American people safe.” This “responsibility” seems to be a creation of the Bush Administration that the people have been trained to accept as the “single most important responsibility.”
In the Associated Press Worldstream on June 12, 2008, when Bush disagreed with “a Supreme Court ruling that [cleared] foreign terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay to challenge their detention in U.S. civilian courts,” Bush suggested that new legislation may be needed “to keep the American people safe.”
On July 12, 2007, at a news conference which touched on Iraq, Bush said, “As president, my most solemn responsibility is to keep the American people safe. So on my orders, good men and women are now fighting the terrorists on the front lines of Iraq.”
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