'Away From the Politics of Fear'

[Madtown HD Junkie]

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,613330,00.html

SPIEGEL: Madame Secretary, in your first testimony to the US Congress as Homeland Security Secretary you never mentioned the word "terrorism." Does Islamist terrorism suddenly no longer pose a threat to your country?

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Napolitano: Of course it does. I presume there is always a threat from terrorism. In my speech, although I did not use the word "terrorism," I referred to "man-caused" disasters. That is perhaps only a nuance, but it demonstrates that we want to move away from the politics of fear toward a policy of being prepared for all risks that can occur.
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MAN CAUSED disasters:unhappy-060::unhappy-060:

some do not learn from history....even history of 8 years ago.

[froggigger]

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,613330,00.html

SPIEGEL: Madame Secretary, in your first testimony to the US Congress as Homeland Security Secretary you never mentioned the word "terrorism." Does Islamist terrorism suddenly no longer pose a threat to your country?

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Napolitano: Of course it does. I presume there is always a threat from terrorism. In my speech, although I did not use the word "terrorism," I referred to "man-caused" disasters. That is perhaps only a nuance, but it demonstrates that we want to move away from the politics of fear toward a policy of being prepared for all risks that can occur.
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MAN CAUSED disasters:unhappy-060::unhappy-060:

some do not learn from history....even history of 8 years ago.

Got that right.

[fallout2600]

I got no problem with them changing the rhetoric, as long as we don't drop our guard again...

[froggigger]

I got no problem with them changing the rhetoric, as long as we don't drop our guard again...

I have a serious problem with it. You can't fight your enemy if you're not even willing to identify who the enemy is. They are terrorists, and terrorists are predominately Islamic radicals. Calling them some generic name avoids the issue. That being said, we can't fix the terror problem. All we can do is protect ourselves from it. The problem must be fixed from within the faith. Peaceful Muslims have to reign in their radical element and stop looking the other way.

[msmith198025]

I have a serious problem with it. You can't fight your enemy if you're not even willing to identify who the enemy is. They are terrorists, and terrorists are predominately Islamic radicals. Calling them some generic name avoids the issue. That being said, we can't fix the terror problem. All we can do is protect ourselves from it. The problem must be fixed from within the faith. Peaceful Muslims have to reign in their radical element and stop looking the other way.

I agree. Until the peacful muslims step up this will continue. I still do not see this as a reflection on the muslim faith as a whole, no more than I would on any other.

[vurbano]

I agree. Until the peacful muslims step up this will continue. I still do not see this as a reflection on the muslim faith as a whole, no more than I would on any other.I disagree. The peaceful muslims are not going to stop this. It will take changing their Quaran and Sura to eliminate the hatred in it. Until that happens, given the incredible obedience and brain washing, there will continue to be those using the passages in the Sura to instill hate. The Sura gives muslims 3 options for us infidels. Convert us, kill us or Tax "enslave" us.

[HDRoberts]

I got no problem with them changing the rhetoric, as long as we don't drop our guard again...

Agree. What is the difference? Was what she said inaccurate? Terrorism is caused by men (and women). I agree we need to stop this fear politics that the Bush administration ran on, essentially implying if a repub. wasn't in power, we would be attacked.

Heck, conservative hero O'Reilly the other day said Bush won the war on terror anyway, so we shouldn't have to worry. :augentreher: