War on Terrorism = 'War of Fear' According to NBC's Richard Engel
Appearing on Sunday's Meet the Press, NBC's chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel worried about the cost of combating terrorism and took the opportunity to bash the effort: "You talk about money the U.S. spent fighting this global war on terrorism. I think, which is a terrible misnomer, it's like a war on fear or something like that. And I think in many ways it has been a war of fear." [Audio available here]
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Engel made the comments on the heels of a panel discussion about efforts to reduce government spending, in which host David Gregory feared the U.S. could experience rioting similar to Greece if entitlement programs were cut back. Engel chimed in and lamented: "The United States spent at least a trillion dollars on this [war on terrorism] for the last decade. And we've become very good at killing bearded men in Waziristan. But there are trade-offs. We've – China owns a tremendous amount of our currency, and we've focused on other – ignored other national priorities."
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Picture this: it's 1942 and
Submitted by Beukeboom on Mon, 06/20/2011 - 2:21pm.
Picture this: it's 1942 and some correspondent from NBC comes on the radio and says, "You talk about money the U.S. spent fighting this global war against the Axis. I think, which is a terrible misnomer, it's like a war on fear or something like that. And I think in many ways it has been a war of fear."
How long before he would be fired?
Hate to break the news Dick
Submitted by Cappmann1962 on Mon, 06/20/2011 - 2:54pm.
But the war on terrorism IS a war of fear. That's what TERRORism is, moron.
My country send me to United States to make movie-film.
Submitted by lotr on Mon, 06/20/2011 - 2:57pm.
He stole that line from Borat.
He's too close. It's
Submitted by amyshulk on Mon, 06/20/2011 - 10:40pm.
He's too close. It's impossible to blithely kill when you can empathize.
Joe {Morning Joe} has been banging the "Get out - it costs too much in blood and treasure" for months now so he must be pleased his *meme* is catching on!
Ronald Reagan