A recent analysis of the 2010 QDR by the Center for American Progress claims, “…the 2010 QDR abandons the Bush administration’s “Long War” construct that oversimplified the nature of the struggle against violent extremists.”  This claim implies that the QDR clarified the nature of this conflict.  The QDR doesn’t even accurately identify the threat.  It does not acknowledge that there is an international campaign led by Islamic extremists to kill Americans.  I realize that it’s not politically correct to identify threats without obfuscation, but the failure to identify the source of this threat in the QDR is troubling.  The terms “violent extremism” and “extremism” are generalities.  Al Qaeda is more specific but it is simply a way to skirt…