Stumble it!Marching as to Religious War
posted in Colorado by themaiden |Responding to Senator Edwards’ comments that the war on terror is a “bumper sticker slogan”, Tancredo declares a different kind of war.
“If Senator Edwards is saying that the war on terror doesn’t exist, I would agree”, Congressman Tancredo said. “Terror is a tactic used by the enemy with which we are at war. The enemy is radical Islam, and if he does not believe that, then he is delusional. America can’t afford a president that is an ostrich, with his head in the sand on this issue.”
It is interesting to me how more and more people are coming to realize that the “war on terror” rhetoric is junk. Terrorism is more like criminal activity than like war. It consequently needs to be fought like any other criminal activity– with the police and the courts, not with tanks and planes.
Tancredo’s take on things (much like his take on evolution, or, wait, maybe not)– namely that the enemy is ‘radical Islam’– is equally asinine. Hopefully what he means by ‘radical Islam’ is ‘people who claim the faith of Islam but who are also criminals’ rather than ‘people who believe in a hard line Islamic theology’. There is a difference and his phrasing is by no means clear. It might be that the phrase ‘radical Islam’ has gained enough currency as meaning “terrorist” that Tancredo can wiggle around the religious implications. Given that this is a man who feels that “there are millions of people that have benefited both spiritually and emotionally” from Falwell’s hate ministry, I’m finding it hard to give him the benefit of the doubt. Whatever he means though, nothing serves the terrorists better than having a US Presidential candidate state that the enemy is Islam, no matter what adjective precedes “Islam”. Thanks a bunch.
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