“We face an enemy that has an ideology,” [...] “They believe things. The best way to describe their ideology is to relate to you the fact that they think the opposite of the way we think.”
It reads like talking points, which it is. It also reads like elementary giggerish. And, if you think about it literally, it means that the “enemy” is half the citizens of the US, and a majority of the other 6 billion people in the world, since they think “the opposite” of the way Bush thinks. It also accounts for why Bush and his handlers feel the need to say it at all. It is the new PR effort: “You are wrong, we are right.” They are attempting to once again reframe the “war” as being like that of WW2, since it’s WW3, and it just goes to logic that they would be the same, right? The basic idea being: “the opposite of the way we think = Islamo Fascists = Nazi. No matter that the analogy is entirely incorrect, but they figure that if Nazi’s make a good villian in the movies, it will work here. Isn’t this the same old tactic they’ve always been using with new shoes on? (c/o Gadflyer)
