Oh, thanks, Glenn! Using his logic, I suppose we need to make sure all of our foreign policy actions pass John Kerry’s infamous “global test” before we engage anywhere in the world. What Greenwald fails to realize is that if we had a strong president leading the United States right now, it wouldn’t matter how our enemies perceive us. A strong leader would define America’s true character, irrespective of what the bad actors in the Middle East think of us. It’s that very lack of American leadership that scares people like Greenwald into worrying what others think of our actions. After all, if we don’t know who we are as a nation, how can we possibly command the respect of other countries?
Ultimately, this semantic debate regarding the true meaning of words like “terrorism” is getting old, and it’s really not as intellectual a discussion as people like Greenwald make it out to be. In fact, it’s rather pointless, if not simply counterproductive to our interests.
Perhaps it might be time to give the moral equivalency game a rest, Glenn. That is, unless you’re auditioning to become the next Al Jazeera correspondent.
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