What is global extremism?

Question

and wouldn't we want that really well defined?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080731/ts_nm/usa_military_strategy_dc

Answer 1

They are referring to Muslim Terrorism.

Muslim Terrorism is a very serious threat.

The goal of Muslim Terrorists is to obtain nuclear weapons and smuggle nuclear weapons into a number of target countries and detonate those nuclear weapons simultaneously.

The Muslim Terrorists are financed by states such as Iran.

States like Iran have enough money from the sale oil to buy nuclear weapons technology on the black market.

Iran will transfer weapons grade Uranium and nuclear weapons that it obtains to the Muslim Terrorists.

If Iran obtains nuclear weapons and transfers those nuclear weapons to Muslim Terrorists, your life will change for the worse in ways that you cannot even imagine.

Your life and everyone else's life will become a very miserable existence.

Your life will now become your worst nightmare.

Life on this earth will become cheap, ugly, brutish and short if Iran and the Muslim Terrorists are successful at obtaining nuclear weapons and nuclear weapons technology  on the black market.

Answer 2

Somebody's kingdom-building at the Pentagon again.

You're right in that "extremism is too wishy-washy a definition.

This could be religious extremists ( but I bet the Pentagon won't touch the Christian ones), environmental extremists ( Greenpeace?), nationalist groups - the label could be twisted to apply all over the place.

Watch for the Pentagon to ask for a big budget increase for this new "initiative".