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I was going to recap Sunday’s Bob Casey-Rick Santorum debate, but after about two minutes of it, I was worried I was going to gouge my eyes out if I kept it on. (I tried to listen to it, also, but I put cotton in my ears about three minutes in.)
Anyway, Rick Santorum apparently talked about The War on Islamic Fascism, which is the new name Santorum is pushing for the Global War on Terror. (Um, okay.) It apparently is easier to actually have an enemy in a war, so it’s a decent rhetorical tactic. (I hope Ricky will be pushing to rename the War on Drugs soon as well.)
In a recent Bucks County Courier Times article, Pennsylvania’s junior senator said just what the war on Islamic Fascism is:
For one, he says, “terror” is merely a tactic, much like the blitzkrieg in World War II. But more importantly, “War with Islamic Fascism” gives a broader, Churchillian scope to the “enemy of this generation.”
He attributes its reach from al- Qaida on Sept. 11, 2001, to the 1979 American embassy takeover in Tehran, from Hezbollah to the nuclear-bent Iranian president.
Santorum even brings in the Ottoman Empire by mentioning the 1693 Battle of Vienna, in which Turkish efforts to conquer Europe were finally halted by the West.
Oh, those bastards in the Ottoman Empire! They really hate we Americans for our freedom, and our … oh, wait, what?
(The Ottomans, by the way, were remarkably tolerant of non-Muslims, even taking in Jews during the Spanish Inquisition.)
But of course.
Santorum’s new name for old war [Bucks County Courier Times]
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