Who Is The Enemy That We Are Fighting Against? -- A Commentary

Photo: Senator Joseph Lieberman.

Who's the Enemy in the War on Terror? -- Senator Joseph Lieberman, Wall Street Journal

The U.S. is at war with violent Islamist extremism, and the Obama administration does moderate Muslims no favor by refusing to recognize this.

In the new National Security Strategy released by the White House last month, the Obama administration rightly reaffirms that America remains a nation at war. Unfortunately, it refuses to identify our enemy in this war as what it is: violent Islamist extremism.

This is more than semantics. As military strategists since Sun Tzu have appreciated, the first rule in war is to know your enemy so you can defeat it. The 2006 National Security Strategy did this: It correctly identified our enemy as "the transnational terrorists [who] exploit the proud religion of Islam to serve a violent political vision." The Obama administration removed those accurate and important words.

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My Comment: After reading this commentary, it is easy to see why he and the White House do not see eye to eye. As to what is my own take .... his commentary on why it is "a must" to properly define the enemy is spot on, and one that I am in complete agreement with.