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Look out. The retreater-in-chief has his big brush and can of whitewash and he is fixing to paint all our troubles away:

President Barack Obama’s advisers will remove religious terms such as “Islamic extremism” from the central document outlining the U.S. national security strategy and will use the rewritten document to emphasize that the United States does not view Muslim nations through the lens of terror, counterterrorism officials said.

The change is a significant shift in the National Security Strategy, a document that previously outlined the Bush Doctrine of preventative war and currently states: “The struggle against militant Islamic radicalism is the great ideological conflict of the early years of the 21st century.”

The officials described the changes on condition of anonymity because the document still was being written, and the White House would not discuss it. But rewriting the strategy document will be the latest example of Obama putting his stamp on U.S. foreign policy, like his promises to dismantle nuclear weapons and limit the situations in which they can be used.

The revisions are part of a larger effort about which the White House talks openly, one that seeks to change not just how the United States talks to Muslim nations, but also what it talks to them about, from health care and science to business startups and education.

(Yeah, because the dhimmi diplomats at the Bush State Department didn’t do enough of that.)

The kumbaya candidate promised to usher in a national security plan of rainbows and unicorns and a world without jihad. Now, he’s delivering on the delusion with a full-scale retreat from the preventative war against Muslim terrorists and the decimation of our nuclear defenses. John Bolton sums it up:

The Nuclear Posture Review is deeply troubling in many respects, starting at the conceptual level with its unfounded assertion that the need for American nuclear deterrence has declined. By further unilaterally limiting the circumstances in which the U.S. would use nuclear weapons to protect itself and its allies, the Obama administration is in fact increasing international instability and the risks of future conflicts. By abandoning the reliable replacement warhead project, and drastically limiting programs to ensure the safety and reliablity of our existing nuclear stockpile, the president is risking our security and obtaining nothing in return.

NRO has more on Obama’s nuclear posturing here.

We’ve traded in a reality-based national security strategy for a Birkenstock bumper-sticker fantasy plan.