Bush Praised for 'Naming the Enemy'

By Patrick Goodenough
CNSNews.com International Editor
October 07, 2005

(CNSNews.com) - President George W. Bush clearly identified the 
enemy for the first time in a speech he delivered on Thursday.

So say a number of conservative commentators reacting online to the
president's speech, in which he spoke of the ideology behind Islamist
terror and attempts to create a "radical Islamic empire."

More than four years after 9/11, and after the "global war on terror"
phrase was briefly sidelined by some administration officials in favor
of the "global struggle against violent extremism," Bush on Thursday
chose a new and more specific emphasis.

"Some call this evil Islamic radicalism; others, militant Jihadism;
still others, Islamo-fascism," he said in a speech at the National
Endowment for Democracy.

Bush, in fact, used the phrase "Islamic radicalism" another half dozen
times during the speech.

He likened Islamic radicalism to earlier failed ideologies, primarily
communism, and accused Iran and Syria of collaborating with
terrorists, warning that the U.S. "makes no distinction between those
who commit acts of terror and those who support and harbor them."

He also referred, without using the term, to Islamists' vision of setting 
up a "caliphate" under Islamic law.

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Cheers, Steve..

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