July 29, 2010-- In a speech at
the American Enterprise Institute, where he is a senior fellow, former
House
Speaker Newt Gingrich accused the Administration of "willful blindness
to the threat of extremist Islam." Gingrich said America and the
West are engaged in a struggle with "may well last longer than the Cold
War." "This is not a war on terrorism," Gingrich, said.
"Terrorism is an activity. This is a struggle with radical
Islamists in both their militant and their stealth form." In his
speech, titled "America at Risk: Camus,
National Security, and Afghanistan," Gingrich sharply criticized the
Muslim-led proposal to build a "Cordoba House" near the World Trade
Center site. He said that America mut be "relentless and
implacable" in Afghanistan, and termed Obama's policy of having a date
for withdrawal as a "magic date." Gingrich said that early on in
the Afghanistan conflict America should have sent in engineers and
built roads throughout the country to open up isolated.areas. [AEI page]
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