Rather it was because the wider war on radical Islamic terrorism requires the tacit and at times active support of many radical Muslims. To illustrate this point, consider the Iraq War counter-insurgency campaign known as the surge. He has been on the campaign trail falsely claiming that he opposed the Iraq War all along. He is quite pleased with himself for observing that US President Barack Obama doesn’t call these mass shootings “radical Islamic terrorism”. As The New York Times’s Rukmini Callimachi wrote, the Islamic State intentionally blurs the lines between the acts of terror it plans and the acts of terror it inspires.

Source: Mint June 14, 2016 23:08 UTC