The Right does have a variety of monikers for the enemy of the day, but most of us are sticking to the President's term: Islamo-Fascists. I stick to the CT folks terms 'Jihadis' which also seems to stick with theologians. The difficulty at this point is distinguishing Salafist Jihadis (& Wahabis) from the Al Qaeda side and Khomeinist Jihadis from the Iranian/Hezbollah side - that's because the Khomeinists are Shia, and the rebels in Iraq are Sunni. We've been mistaking (by we I mean Bush and his supporters) 'terrorists' with the Iraqi insurgency, and although there have been real acts of perfidy and shooting from mosques, the Iraqi insurgency are not really the primary terrorists targetted by the GWOT as we understand it.
Understand that Iran is fine with destabilizing Iraq to the extent that it can exert Shia influence on the new Shia majority, but then again the hatchet is not completely buried. They were at war; a war that killed one million.
At any rate, I have purchased The Looming Tower and have begun this, the most reputable book about Al Qaeda yet written in English. And so I am following in the first few pages, the story of Sayyid Qutb, also to be known as the 40 Year Old Virgin, as he grows to despise America, one dame at a time in Greeley, Colorado.
So to the end of disambiguation, I'm also starting a reference page.
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