Obama to change terrorism-related wording of National Security Strategy

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Source: Associated Press

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"President Barack Obama's advisers plan to remove terms such as "Islamic radicalism" from a document outlining national security strategy and will use the new version to emphasize that the U.S. does not view Muslim nations through the lens of terrorism, counterterrorism officials say.

The change would be a significant shift in the National Security Strategy, a document that previously outlined the Bush Doctrine of preventive war. It currently states, "The struggle against militant Islamic radicalism is the great ideological conflict of the early years of the 21st century."

The officials described the changes on condition of anonymity because the document is still being written and is unlikely to be released for weeks, and the White House would not discuss it. But rewriting the strategy document is the latest example of Obama putting his stamp on U.S. foreign policy, as with his promises to dismantle nuclear weapons and limit the situations in which they can be used.

The revisions are part of a larger effort about which the White House talks openly, one that seeks to change not just how the U.S. talks to Muslim nations, but also what it talks to them about, from health care and science to business startups and education."

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[Enrique]

1. we've been infiltrated

next he'll let Muslins serve in Congress. :tinfoilhat:

[Xenotime]

2. .

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[liberal N proud]

3. That will set the fundies on fire

It is a common sense move but I can hear the fundies right now screaming about Obama being muslim.

[Tempest]

4. Our own homegrown radicals are more a threat to the country

To focus on Islamists is to ignore the bigger threat.

[Xenotime]

5. That is the truth. The growing teabagger movement is becoming a threat.

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6. Oh shit, the tea-baggers are going to go batshit crazy!!

oh, wait...