It's really hard to fight, much less win, a war if you are unwilling to so much as name the enemy.  So notes Scott Johnson in today's entry on Powerline.  Take special note of the White House version of things:

In the new issue of the Weekly Standard, Steve Hayes and Tom Joscelyn document the lengths to which President Obama and other public officials have gone to make fools of themselves commenting on the attempted terrorist attack by Faisal Shahzad in Times Square. They note, for example, that attempted bombing is referred to on the White House Web site as "the Times Square incident." (Is anyone in the White House familiar with The Ox-Bow Incident? You might want to change that to "the Times Square happening" or "the Times Square event.")

 

Hayes and Joscelyn have much more. Treating the Times Square happening as the third such terrorist attack in the Age of Obama, they show how the public relations foolishness fits into a recurring pattern: "The most striking thing about all three attacks is not what we heard, but what we haven't heard. There has been very little talk about the global war that the Obama administration sometimes acknowledges we are fighting and virtually nothing about what motivates our enemy: radical Islam." Is Shahzad a Muslim? I hadn't heard that.

 

Read the whole thing here, http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/05/026250.php.  The Administration's see-no-evil, speak-no-evil approach to terrorism would be hilarious if it weren't lethal.  Which, unfortunately, it is.