As an illustration of the lengths to which the Obama Administration will go to avoid naming our enemy, two new documents were made public today that outline the administration’s defense and homeland security strategy for the next four years. The two reports contain a total of 236 pages but do not mention words like “Islam,” “Islamic,” or “Islamist” a single time.

These reports come in the wake of a Defense Department review of the Fort Hood Massacre. In that report’s 86 pages, the words “Muslim” and “Islam” do not appear. This even though the alleged killer, U.S Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan, had on numerous occasions expressed radical and fervent Islamic views, corresponded with an al Qaeda recruiter and shouted “Allah Akbar” (Allah is great) as he carried out his murderous rampage.

The Obama Administration has chosen instead to use the words “violent extremism” as a catch all phrase for terrorism. But the U.S. is not at war with violent, extremist Baptists or violent, extremist Catholics. We are at war with violent, extremist Muslims who tell us that their faith informs their actions.

The Obama Administration’s see-no-Islam-hear-no-Islam-speak-no-Islam approach to national security puts more American lives in danger. Just as you cannot cure a disease without identifying its source, “violent extremism” will not be stopped until we acknowledge its source, radical Islam.

Back To Bizarro World

If the president really believes his own rhetoric, things are worse than I thought. At yesterday’s “get tough” press conference, President Obama once again exposed the bizarre logic that dominates leftwing thinking and turns reality on its head. Believe it or not, our commander-in-chief actually said, and I quote:

“Finally, some have suggested that the events on Christmas Day should cause us to revisit the decision to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay.  …But make no mistake:  We will close Guantanamo prison, which has damaged our national security interests and become a tremendous recruiting tool for al Qaeda.  In fact, that was an explicit rationale for the formation of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.”

Let me see if I understand the president correctly: Because Al Qaeda was using our terrorist detention facility as a recruiting tool, we must shut it down. When did the United States of America start taking orders from Al Qaeda? And is it plausible that some young Yemeni man heard about Guantanamo Bay for the first time and said, “That’s it! I’m going to blow myself up to punish the infidel Americans for locking up Muslims in Cuba”? I don’t think so.

If Guantanamo Bay is such a major cause of terrorism, why does the president think Al Qaeda attacked us on 9/11? There was no GITMO on the day the World Trade Center towers fell. There was no GITMO on the day the towers were first attacked in 1993. There was no GITMO when the USS Cole was bombed in 2000. There was no GITMO when our embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were blown up.

If GITMO really is a terrorist recruiting tool, how much sense does it make to relocate our terrorist detention facility to American soil? And if Barack Obama really believes that a terrorist prison creates more terrorists, then what are we supposed to do with them? (I have my own ideas!)

I hate to break it to you, Mr. President, but even if you pad-locked and fumigated GIMTO tomorrow, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula would not abandon its jihad against the West. And shutting GITMO in response to anything Al Qaeda says will only be interpreted by our enemies as weakness on our part and a victory for them. No, Mr. President, the prison is not the problem. Radical Islam is the problem. Stop bowing to our enemies!