Edwards is right when he says that the war on terror has become a cliché used by Bush to justify otherwise unjustifiable actions taken by this administration. However, Edwards is naive when he states, in front of the Council on Foreign Relations
He has used this doctrine like a sledgehammer to justify the worst abuses and biggest mistakes of his administration, from Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib, to the war in Iraq. The worst thing about the Global War on Terror approach is that it has backfired -- our military has been strained to the breaking point and the threat from terrorism has grown
Those events were on purpose, they were systemic and not due to bad apples and they need to be addressed in a context larger than just as a Bush administration mistake. Framing it that way won’t help and it isn’t a sign of leadership based in realism.
There's several more problems with Edwards comprehension of the real war against "terrorists" below..
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