If You’re Afraid to Name Your Enemy, How Can You Fight Him?

NewsReal Blog ^ | September 2, 2009 | Claude Cartaginese

[HorowitzianConservative]

Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thought crime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. --George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four

It all started earlier this year, when the Director of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, told a German Magazine during an interview:

I presume there is always a threat from terrorism. In my speech, although I did not use the word ‘terrorism,’ I referred to ‘man-caused’ disasters. That is perhaps only a nuance, but it demonstrates that we want to move away from the politics of fear toward a policy of being prepared for all risks that can occur.

Next, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton joined the fray. After some initial confusion caused by Napolitano’s interview, Clinton set the record straight by announcing that the administration of President Barack Obama would no longer be talking about a “War on Terror”:

[Uncle Miltie]

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