All told, while we may be approaching a tipping point, and while we can hope for a more amenable Obama Administration in his second term in office, the fight remains an uphill battle.
As Brennan explained it, referring to terrorists as terrorists is unacceptable because doing so sets the US against terror-supporting regimes that the Obama administration believes are all amenable to appeasement.
"England managed very cleverly to remain in the background, " Bakhash said, adding that London had been advocating support for a coup unsuccessfully with the Truman administration in Washington before the more amenable Eisenhower government came to power in early 1953.