Posted on 03/30/2009 3:16:32 PM PDT by EagleUSA
THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- The phrase "global war on terror" is finished, at least as far as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is concerned.
The top U.S. diplomat told reporters Tuesday that the Obama administration has quit using that line to describe the effort to fight terrorism around the world.
"The administration has stopped using the phrase and I think that speaks for itself," Clinton said.
Clinton spoke as she headed to Europe for a week of diplomatic meetings. The phrase "war on terror" is widely disliked in Europe and elsewhere overseas, where even close U.S. allies suggested it was overly militaristic and perhaps counterproductive.
It is also now associated with a range of Bush-era policies such as harsh interrogation practices that Obama has pledged to abandon.
Clinton was asked about the phrase as she headed to Europe for a week of diplomatic meetings.
She said the absence of the "war on terror" language speaks for itself. Pundits have noted the absence, but top administration figures have had little to say on the subject before now.
"I haven't heard it used. I haven't gotten any directive about using it or not using it, it's just not being used," Clinton said.
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More pre 9/11 thinking. They are going to get a lot of Americans killed, again.
More pre 9/11 thinking. They are going to get a lot of Americans killed, again.
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How many have to die, before the STUPID AND BLIND liberal electorate wake up to what they have done, and continue to do??
As long as we don’t call them terrorists, there will be no terrorism, just a lot of dead people from freak accidents.
Yeah, and the “Please Don’t Hate Us and Kill Us Anymore” video President Obama sent to the Iranians worked ever so well. The mullahs are still laughing it off.
Since "terrorism" no longer exists....problem solved!"
This sums up the Obama administration perfectly.
Oh for sure people will be just as dead, but at least we won't be under attack by a fanatical enemy hell bent on our complete destruction.
There are no terrorists. Just followers of the religion of peace that we haven't met yet.
"Changing hearts and minds with Obamaphonics trillions of tax dollars."
So will Obama, Clinton & Co. stop using the war analogy when it comes to drugs, poverty, homelessness, AID’s etc.? What is the world-wide fight against terrorism going to be called? And are they still using the term “terrorist” in any capacity at all?
They stopped the war also.
LLS
The current administration has shifted its focus—
The new name of its campaign is “The War on America”
“No matter what the greatest tyrant in the world, the greatest terrorist in the world" -George W. Bush, we’re here to tell you: "Not hundreds, not thousands, but millions of the American people ... support your revolution,” Belafonte told Chavez during the broadcast."
Where was Clinton & Friends' outrage then?
I don’t imagine that they will substitute “War against Islamic Facism”? If they did, I’d support that.
They’ll probbaly change it to something more like,
“Re-education campaign for unfriendly Muslims.”
I say rename the terrorists as “those annoying and misunderstood neighbors”
Mrs. Clinton, you are a political whore.
And that is the best I can say of ya there enabler.
Yes, the Left really cares about their future executioners.
The suicidal Left is the reason we will be hit, again...and again.
A Clinton is still a Clinton -— a driveling idiot just like the Imposter-in-Chief
Obama has changed the war on terror to the war on the free markets.
If an American city is nuked by terrorists, did it ever really exist?
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