Last August, John Brennan, the former CIA officer who serves as the top counterterrorism adviser in the Obama White House, gave a speech in which he explained that the president had made a conscious effort to move away from using the GWOT catchphrase. “The president does not describe this as a ‘war on terrorism,’” Brennan said. “That is because ‘terrorism’ is but a tactic . . . [and] by focusing on the tactic, we risk floundering among the terrorist trees while missing the growth of the extremist forest . . . Likewise, the president does not describe this as a ‘global war.’ Yes, Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups operate in many corners of the world and continue to launch attacks in different nations, as we saw most recently in Jakarta. And yes, the United States will confront Al Qaeda aggressively wherever it exists so that it enjoys no safe haven. But describing our efforts as a ‘global war’ only plays into the warped narrative that Al Qaeda propagates.”
- Obama’s ‘Intelligence Czar’ Plugs a New Counterterrorism Catchphrase, by Mark Hosenball, April 06, 2010, Blog.newsweek.com.
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