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March 02, 2006
Denial Of Reality Still The Rage
After the Muslim riots in France last fall and the more recent Mohammed cartoon riots, a lot of us were wondering if these explosions of Islamic violence might change the fundamental mindset both here and in the European community to one that is more alert to the dangers of appeasing terrorists and those who enable them.
A couple of recent posts seem to say, "Don't hold your breath!"
Captain Ed highlights a new EU report that challenges its members to crack down on CIA operatives in Europe; the report also "criticized several European countries for not being more forthcoming about whether they have helped the CIA carry out extralegal counterterrorism operations on their soil." Captain Ed (all emphases are mine):
[Terry Davis, chairman of the Council of Europe] doesn't understand that the CIA isn't a law-enforcement agency but an intelligence and espionage organization; by definition, that means that their agents operate outside the law and in a covert manner. Not only that, but somehow Davis manages to avoid drawing the line between the amount of terrorists found in their countries and those same legal and human-rights standards that keep Europe from doing much about it.
Actually, Ed, I think it's the perversion and selective application of those human rights standards that enables the spread of Islamofascism. But in any event, the result is the same.
Meanwhile Jeff Goldstein at Protein Wisdom notes that the administration's National Strategy for Combating Terrorism is plagued by inter-agency infighting. The planners have made one important decision though: out of concern for Muslim sensibilities, they’ve replaced the word “jihadist” with “extremist."
Bloody hell. Is it too difficult to draw the reasonable conclusion that merely because we identify the jihadists it does not follow that we're labeling every Muslim in the world as a jihadist?
And this from a hawkish Republican administration.
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