The John Batchelor Show

VIDEO: Newspeak

February 03, 2015

Monday  2 February 2015  / Hour 1, Block C: Andrew C. McCarthy, in re:  WAR ON TERROR  The Taliban Are Terrorists Why Obama pretends they are not.  . . .  A member of the Pakistani Taliban has just let Taliban to join ISIS as the Khorasan (AfPakia region) member. The Deputy Governor of that region is a former Guantanamo detainee.  Pres Obama's strategy from the beginning has been to atomize the various terrorist arms of the global jihadist movement, describe them as though each was a small, local group un connected to global Islamic supremacism.  In this, al Q is now as much of a threat to us as it was on 9/11, while ISIS is at least as dangerous to us Meanwhile, there are ongoing attempts at rapprochement between ISIS and al Qaeda. There's one Islamic supremacist movement that targets the West. This administration cannot admit that the word is not what it wishes the world would be; rather, it thinks that its language can change events on the ground. Recall the loopiness a few years back; "The Muslim Brotherhood/Ikhwan is a moderate secular organization."   Yikes – not.   Insight: This is Orwellian newspeak by ignorant people. They deprive us of knowing who the enemy is.  Their world view is that the US is responsible for all bad developments everywhere.   They sympathize with the jihadists.  Recall Lord Halifax and Neville Chamberlain. The Ministry of Peace says it's not . . .