Posted on 04/04/2007 3:43:42 AM PDT by Screamname
....and help lose the GWOT.
Jimmuh Cahtah didn’t like the terminology “Illegal Aliens”, and ordered his Administration to use only “Undocumented Immigrants” to reference “Illegal Aliens”.
Nothing Political.
Another slap at Bush.
I see, and is that why you asked not to be identified?
My opinion of politicians in general and Democrats in particular is so low as to suspect Orwellian manipulation and concealed motivation and to doubt truthfulness almost as a knee-jerk instinct--an instinct that experience makes me reluctant to abandon.
Certainly in the case of European political leaders, and other outspoken Europeans, there is a strong current of denial and dangerous aversion to truth that makes comparison to Orwellian nightmare impossible to avoid.
The obviousness that the American Left, by which the Democrat Party is controlled, represents the same, strong current of decadence that appears to have damned Europe to a nightmarish future makes its comparison to an Orwellian nightmare also unavoidable.
Would that it were not true.
It`s freggin` disgusting...Any country or group that wanted to attack or invade the US can always count on the Treasoncrats to help them along every step of the way. Look at freggin` Pelosi, just what the F_ is she doing in Syria anyway? What`s her next stop, an Al-Qaeda training camp to see if they have enough rounds?
The promises that she is making our enemies, is that hold on just a few more months until the dems take control, and we will go home and everything will be back to normal.
If you are a dim, you are my enemy, the enemy of freedom and an ENEMY of AMERICA! Screw ALL dims... they waste oxygen!
LLS
Sickening Sons of Bitc$es.
Call the enemy by name: Islam.
Then call Americans whose actions lend comfort and support to the enemy, what they are: TRAITORS!
I thought of a little kid putting his fingers in his ears and going “la, la, la, la, I can’t hear you!”
Are there any adults in the House?
The House waved the Magic Lexicon Wand to make the Global War On Terror go away.
And how do you declare "victory"
You can't. We can, and should, declare war (haven't bothered yet) against nation states who actively seek to harm us (and YES, I believe in pre-emptive strikes). I have no problem at all in hunting down and killing any known terrorists or terrorist enablers, either.
This, however, is fated to be no different than the "war on poverty" or the "war on drugs." No clear goals, no way to get accountability, and sn eternal metastasizing of the "war effort."
As long as there is one poor child, as long as there is one kid smoking a joint somewhere, as long as there is a Mustafa in a a cave slobbering over the Koran with an RPG, the war must go on. Using that type of terminology is silly, and actually cheapens our efforts to resist terrorism.
"WAR" is a term for total destruction of an enemy, not for fighting an ideology.
Israel has been resisting islamofascism FAR longer than we have, and they don't resort to silly emotionally manipulative phraseology. They just kick ass when Egypt, Syria, or whoever comes after them....., and they hunt down and kill terrorists. We could learn a thing or two from them.
Dems = buncha f*ck*ng pansies.
...“There was no political intent in doing this,”...
“...but also has a political element involving a disagreement over whether the war in Iraq is part of the effort to combat terrorism or is actually a distraction from fighting terrorists.”
No “POLITICAL INTENT”?
Many didn’t think twice about that announcement in the ‘70’s when the Dems concocted the language in support of Political Correctness. We need call them on this one.
I guess the DoD will need to rename this site along with the GWOT Medal
Right move, wrong reason; the GWOT no longer has anything very ‘global’ about it because the Bush administration has, through pure incompetence, let it be turned into ‘the war in Iraq’.
Still, I’m sure we’ll get a reminder of its real nature one of these days.
This is the Dems trying to be controllers of the effort they had nothing to do with except expressing their regret for having supported it.
GWOT is indeed too vague a term. Like the “War on Drugs”, the “War on Cancer”, and the “War on Crime” it evokes a nebulous menace that is used tojustify distortion and side-tracking of legal processes, and accumulation of “extraordinary powers” in the hands of public officials and “extraordinary spending” pretexts by vote-hungry politicians looking for ways to extract more funds to buy votes for their next election.
Terrorism is a tactic, not an enemy. Calling enemies “terrorists” is mere posturing. The global war on Wahabism would be more precise, but problematic given the Saudi sponsorship of the institutions that have spread this extreme version of Islam across the globe, western nations’ dependence on Saudi oil, US dependence on Saudi support for the dollar, and the other adversaries in the Islamic world, apocalyptic Shia, who are just as threatening to the US, but would benefit by a US struggle with their traditional Sunni enemies that weakened the latter.
It’s not an easy question, and certainly not one that will be sensibly addressed by domestic political factions that are more focused on winning the next election than on the threats to their country’s future.
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