It took White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest a while to muster up the courage to call today’s attack on Paris humor magazine Charlie Hebdo “terrorism” — but “it shouldn’t take any while,” says Charles Krauthammer, who insisted that today’s events were clearly another sortie in an ongoing war against Islamic extremism that the president refuses to acknowledge.
“The reports early on were that the guys were shouting ‘Allahu Akbar!’ We know exactly what that is. It isn’t as if it’s a mystery. In fact, it is what the Fort Hood shooter was yelling, as well. It’s the signature of radical Islamic terrorism.”
“Obviously the president is responding the way he has to, expressing sympathy and saying we’re going to show our determination,” Krauthammer continued, “but for years he’s been giving speeches in which he says the war has corrupted us, we cannot remain on a war footing, we have to change, we have to end this war. You can’t end a war unilaterally, and what we’re getting week after week in Australia, here, in Canada – everywhere – are re-declarations, again and again, that the war is ongoing, and the West is the target.”
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