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Obama’s speech on Afghanistan is perhaps as notable for what the President did not say as what he did. What do I mean by that? Well, he never uses the words ‘victory,’ ‘win,’ or ‘jihad.’  He does use ‘terrorist’ or ‘terrorism’ five times, and ‘defeating’ a grand total of once.

He had to wiggle hard to avoid using some of these verboten words.  We don’t fight ‘jihadists,’ for instance, but rather “a group of extremists who have distorted and defiled Islam.”  Despite being too busy to talk about winning the war, he did find plenty of time to talk about himself, using the word ‘I’ on 40 separate occasions, and ‘me’ another six times.

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