The US War on Vagueness

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Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, says the language of the summit isn't uniquely problematic but reflective of a broader discomfort policymakers have in discussing the power of religious ideas. He says the Obama administration simply, “doesn’t take ISIL's ideas very seriously” and adds that downplaying religion when discussing terrorism avoids a central issue.

“To say that what we like is true and that what we don't like is a distortion,” he argues, “is to rob it [religion] of its power.”
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