What Do You Call a Terror(Jihad)ist?

IMAGINE if Franklin D. Roosevelt had taken to calling Adolf Hitler the ''leader of the National Socialist Aryan patriots'' or dubbed Japanese soldiers fighting in World War II as the ''defenders of Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere.'' To describe the Nazis and the Imperial Japanese Army in terms that incorporated their own propaganda would have been self-defeating. Unfortunately, that is what many American policymakers have been doing by calling terrorists ''jihadists'' or ''jihadis.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]