Obama Bans Islam, Jihad From National Security Strategy Document
The change is a significant shift in the National Security Strategy, a document that previously outlined the Bush Doctrine of preventative war.

FOXNews.com
April 7, 2010

http://www.legal-project.org/690/obama-bans-islam-jihad-from-national-security

Excerpt:

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's advisers will remove religious terms such as "Islamic extremism" from the central document outlining the U.S. national security strategy and will use the rewritten document to emphasize that the United States does not view Muslim nations through the lens of terror, counterterrorism officials said.

The change is a significant shift in the National Security Strategy, a document that previously outlined the Bush Doctrine of preventative war and currently states: "The struggle against militant Islamic radicalism is the great ideological conflict of the early years of the 21st century."

The officials described the changes on condition of anonymity because the document still was being written, and the White House would not discuss it. But rewriting the strategy document will be the latest example of Obama putting his stamp on U.S. foreign policy, like his promises to dismantle nuclear weapons and limit the situations in which they can be used.

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