President Obama’s speech in Cairo last week shows that he’s taking the advice of folks urging the U.S. to drop the us-versus-them “War on Terror” rhetorical frame in favor of one that reinforces the idea of a conflict within Islam about the use of violence in political conflict. For quite some time, proponents of “strategic [...]
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Contesting Jihad within Radical Islam, Part 1
Posted: June 10, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Afghanistan, airstrikes, CIST, civilian casualties, Countering Ideological Support to Terrorism, drones, Islam, Khudai Khidmatgars, McKiernan, Michael Doran, Obama, strategic communications
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