America’s foreign policy is,
and has been driven by fatally flawed, intellectually dishonest
premises and principles for more than a decade.
As a result, since Sept. 11,
2001, our goals, tactics and strategies have ranged from wrong-headed
though well intentioned, to wrong-headed and ill intentioned. If America
continues to fundamentally misunderstand its enemies, let alone
honestly define who they are, it risks losing its position as the
world’s preeminent superpower, a calamity the likes of which may spell
the end of Western civilization as we know it.
President George W. Bush’s crucial first mistake in this author’s view was declaring a “War On Terror.”
In announcing that America was at war with a tactic — either due to a
genuine inability to identify the enemy or out of political correctness
so as to avoid having to identify a foe primarily animated by religion —
President Bush’s rhetoric was incoherent at best and obfuscatory at
worst.http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/why-americas-foreign-policy-has-failed-from-bush-to-obama-and-the-antidote/
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