{"id":39037,"date":"2011-09-04T15:45:08","date_gmt":"2011-09-04T15:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/senator-lieberman-obama-administration-afraid-to-use-the-phrase-islamic-extremist\/"},"modified":"2011-09-04T15:45:08","modified_gmt":"2011-09-04T15:45:08","slug":"senator-lieberman-obama-administration-afraid-to-use-the-phrase-islamic-extremist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/senator-lieberman-obama-administration-afraid-to-use-the-phrase-islamic-extremist.php","title":{"rendered":"Senator Lieberman: Obama administration afraid to use the phrase Islamic extremist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-n_NPrsc1VwI\/TmD7DPXcOxI\/AAAAAAAAVHw\/rKf0vUWx1xY\/s1600\/JoeLieberman.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/614b5_JoeLieberman.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a>From Eric Dondero:<\/p><p>Connecticut Independent Senator Joe Lieberman had some harsh words for the Obama administration's foreign policy last Thursday.  In a speech to the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism at the Press Club in D.C., Lieberman echoed a common criticism rendered by pro-national security websites, including LR.  Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/InsideCover\/lieberman-obama-islamic-extremism\/2011\/09\/01\/id\/409521\">NewsMax<\/a> \"Lieberman: Obama's Fear of Offending Muslims Paralyzes Policy\":<br><\/p><blockquote><p>One of Lieberman&rsquo;s biggest criticisms, according to a report in TheHill.com, was that the administration clings to the term &ldquo;violent extremism&rdquo; to define the threat to America, rather than identifying it as &ldquo;violent Islamist extremism.&rdquo;<\/p><p>&ldquo;The administration still refuses to call our enemy in this war by its proper name: violent Islamist extremism,&rdquo; said Lieberman, an independent who caucuses with Democrats. &ldquo;To call our enemy &lsquo;violent extremism&rsquo; is so general and vague that it ultimately has no meaning.&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote><p><em>Editor's comment - Not only Obama.  We here at LR happen to know a great many libertarians who similarly refuse to acknowledge the threat from Radical Islam. <\/em> <\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/e4bef_7828681836623105417-3206829151142289209?l=www.libertarianrepublican.net\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Eric Dondero:Connecticut Independent Senator Joe Lieberman had some harsh words for the Obama administration's foreign policy last Thursday. In a speech to the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism at the Press Club in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/senator-lieberman-obama-administration-afraid-to-use-the-phrase-islamic-extremist.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39037"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}