Getting Real About the War on Terror
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Bush and his aides are correcting course and tacitly admitting errors. But they just can't bring themselves to say so.
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With a new book the controversial author takes on the sacred ground of the terror attacks and their aftermath
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Itâs often been said in recent weeks that you canât negotiate with terrorists. Morally thatâs right: in the case of the Jordanian Abu Muab alâZarqawi and his âTawhid &amp; Jihadâ interlopersâgroup, the statement is also fact.
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The President's speech was the latest in a campaign to flood the airwaves with tough talk on terror. And it seems to be working
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The jihadists' tactics aren't mysterious. We just need help on the ground
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It's possible to work out effective countermeasures if your enemy sticks with specific tactics. But if your foe is a terrorist with the innate ability to think and adapt, things get a little more tricky.
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The unity that followed the September 11 attacks five years ago was never going to last. But the nation has not merely returned to the messy family arguments of September 10. All wars bring a reckoning of means and ends, and the war on terrorism has long since lost its crisp moral lines. Americans may agree that terrorism is wicked, but they're still unsure about how to answer it.
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This country remains divided on many issues - how the war on terror is conducted contributing much to this divide. Itâs not at all certain that Alberto Gonzales, the White House counsel whom President Bush
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President Bush is casting the war on global terrorism as the central issue of the midterm elections. But it's a risky political strategy.
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Osama bin Laden has made his first appearance on video since September 2003, delivering an especially eerie message that underscores why the war on terrorism must be at the top of the nation&#39;s public agenda.
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The Republican debate in Columbia, South Carolina on May 15 broached the issue of 'enhanced interrogation techniques' and torture, and whether or not the use of either is legitimate. &nbsp;Ron Paul and John McCain were the only two in the whole field who called 'enhanced interrogation techniques' a euphemism for torture, and they were the only two who expressly rejected the use of these techniques. Ron Paul at one point accused Brit Hume, a Fox News moderator, as well as the other candidates, of engaging in 'newspeak.' &nbsp; This was a big highlight for me, even though I have, for years, resisted the urge to simply compare Fox News or the Bush administration to the societies described by George Orwell in his novels. I always rejected it as overly simplistic, or as breathless left-wing hysteria on par with 'OMG BUSHITLER' and the like. I must admit however that the exchange was getting pretty surreal until Ron Paul pointed it out. But that was hardly the strangest thing that happened. That would be the exchange between Paul and Giuliani, facilitated by moderator and all-around Fox News hack Wendell Goler. Paul comported himself well in spite of the openly hostile treatment by Fox News and some of his opponents, notching 2nd place in the Fox News text message poll. This is notable because Paul's positions on almost every issue stand in stark contrast to those of his opponents. Links, transcript, and some thoughts below the fold, with a poll.
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âThe Kingdom,â takes aim at the ethical nuances and ideological contradictions of the war on terror and blasts away.
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Intelligence-gathering by the front-line forces that need to know the most is proving difficult in a region increasingly gripped by fear.
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In the thick of an election campaign, President Bush has revived and retooled his argument that the U.S. must fight terrorists overseas or face them here. Despite the unpopularity of the Iraq war, some GOP candidates are borrowing Bush's line.
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Jarret Brachman recently told a class of West Point cadets that many Americans had an unsophisticated image of Islamic terrorists &#151; that they live in caves, "you know, beating the women over their heads." On the contrary, the U.S. is fighting a far more technologically savvy enemy &#151; one adept at both propaganda and Power Point &#151; said Brachman, the director of research at the United States Military Academy's Combating Terrorism Center.
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Gordon Corera looks at how Osama Bin Laden's terror network has made the most of modern communications.
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Appeasement of terrorists is the specter of the day, but it's bad for debate in a democracy