Is There a War on the Term 'War on Terror'

"There is no real "war" going on. Both are broad criminal acts of terror."

3,000 Americans dead in a pile of rubble made up of the World Trade center that devastated downtown New York, took weeks to clean up. Families buried thier loved ones whos remains could fit in a pill bottle.

US Sailors pulling into port at Yemen, eating in the galley when a bomb rocked the side of the ship, killing sailors in the galley.

Women and little girls stuffed into a house in Iraq on top of mortor shells. A call is made tipping off the weapons cache knowing US planes would strike it. US planes do strike it, notice secondary explosions. Minutes later press is called to observe the carnage. Press posts picture of burned doll. No one takes notice that no males were in the house. The women and little girls were sacrificed for a press story.

This is war. This isn't some criminal crazies. This is war with no rules, no laws, no decency. They are not random acts of violence, they are determined acts of war. When you stop thinking about it as a determined war, they win because they have not changed their determination, you have changed yours. The inevitable result will be that their determination will hit you again and again. Their will to kill cannot be broken because of a name change.

Americans have short memories and believe naively in the greater good of man, discounting the purest of evil in the world. You believe that these men are like us. They are not. They are nothing like us because they do not want to be like us. The see our limited use of our great power as weak and undeserving of God's blessings. When they strike us, they use it to show just how weak we are.

This name change fiasco only confirms the hate they preach. We are weak and muslims should join them to strike us down.

Yeah, name change was a good idea. Don't want to offend anyone.

A 15 paragraph article on 'wether or not someone is using a phrase????
The mainstream news is done, if you want some non mind numbing information then watch THE OBAMA DECEPTION.

Personally? I think the term or phrase "Overseas Contingency Operation" is really lame... One problem with this is the term: Overseas ... as if we (America) are somehow immune?

Eisenhower: "When I can't solve a problem I always make it bigger until I can find a solution. I can never find a solution by trying to make it smaller."

What the Commander in Training is doing to this nation IS a man caused disaster and now he flys to London for an overseas contingency operation

Glad to hear it's all over. Maybe that's why we're releasing the terrorist detainees from Gitmo. One was ordered released today. It was previously suggested that Uiyger Muslim separatists from China be released in the Washington DC/Alexandria area with a Uiyger immigrant community in the region. (They were captured in terror training camps in Pakistan.)

When the terrorists are released in the U.S. will they be monitored? Will people be protected? Adm Blair suggested the other day that they would receive some kind of government assistance. Does that mean the taxpayers now take care of the very people who bombed the Trade Centers and Flt 93?

I have never seen a people more compliant nor a media more uncurious. Perhaps we should cut off our own heads so our terrorist-citizen neighbors don't have to break a sweat.

Gee Rod, my little brother went to Afghanistan, I'll be sure to tell him you consider him and his SF brothers a token force.

Silky.....beter a mod than a NEO-COM(mie)!

American Infidel -- well said...

silky--"You're missing the point. It's obvious that this teacher is abusing his/her position and is taking part in a malicious disinformation campaign against our President."-- Okay, so saying anything negatived toward the president is malicious and derogatory??An abuse of her position? How do you know the campaign is one of "disinformation"? What if it consists wholly of truthful talking points designed to make the kids think for themselves and draw their own conclusions? We can't have that now can we??

Ask any combat veteran if they give a damn what "you" call it. Anytime steel goes whizzing by when flung in anger .....it is a "war" about something!! I don't give an obama what the dung beetles want to call this action that has to be done. What is most important is we don't lose sight of the fact that the "TERRORIST" want each and every infidel DEAD!!
They don't give a cats' obama if you are Dem or Rep or Ind in your voting choice. So argue if you must over a "name" but you do a disservice to the warriors on the FRONT by being PC about the fight!!

I find it fascinating that this administration no longer uses the words "terror" or "terrorist".
What a bunch of wusses. FYI-Not using the words will not make the threat go away.

I fear in 4 years this country will barely resemble the USA we love so much.
Sigh.....

joe biddens daughter was just on video snorting coke?

sarah palins daughter brought a baby into the world?

and these people want to be in charge of the US? how can they make a difference when the problem is right in the family..

whats do you think is worse becuase this is what is the main problem in the US right now.

drugs/cartel and underage preggers

just currious to what people think.
thanks!

"but surely you DO NOT believe that drugs are not at least as great of a problem as unwanted pregnancy is??"

No, really, I do believe it and I think they need to be legalized.

"I think you might want to take it easy on what appears to be the post of a school student. But your response is rather telling.. Let me guess, its okay to teach socialism in schools and how liberism is the only way to go, but if anyone dares question our leadership, we need to get rid of them immediately right?? Aren't you gonna be late for your next Karl Marx book club reading??"

You're missing the point. It's obvious that this teacher is abusing his/her position and is taking part in a malicious disinformation campaign against our President. And with other people's children. Let's not only teach them false information, but let's also show them that the moral is that being manipulative is what it's all about.

silky--"And 17 year olds with unplanned pregnancies are a far bigger problem than grown adults using drugs recreationally"-- Are you kidding? thats the best defensive argument you can come up with?-- Why don't you tell that to the 8,000 killed ( thats right - twice the number killed in Iraq) who on our borders with Mexico due to the drug wars that are raging out of control right now.. its one thing to scrape the bottom of the barrel for a response, but surely you DO NOT believe that drugs are not at least as great of a problem as unwanted pregnancy is??

Wow...the mods are out in force. The disinformation campaign marches on.

i had diffences with my boss who he is republican, i support obama always have.. but becasue i do, i was called into my bosses office and was fired. As i was leaving my office he stoped and told me 3 last words.. "yes-we-can" and that was the end of my job... anyone hiring?

"eversince obama has been in office my small bussiness has been getting taxed more and more."

Huh?

eversince obama has been in office my small bussiness has been getting taxed more and more. In that since, i had to let go of some of my workers. the hardest part was having to tell them why. I have been republican my whole life, and bussnies has always been good. People voted for obama so that there are more jobs out there and to make more. well, im sorry to say that having to let go was hard. So i did the right thing, go outside and who ever has an obama sticker was let go(6 hard working men and women) now their out of a job....You cannot belive the media today, peole need to do research so they know what would come if voting with this president and vise-versa.

"I see that ABC is still mum on Vice President Joe Bidens daughter caught on video doing lines of cocaine. They sure didnt waste nary a minute thrashing Governor Palins 17 year old daughter for being pregnant. ABC has ZERO credibility."

Yet, you continue to read it. Interesting.

And would you care to share a link to an occassion where ABC "thrash[ed]" Bristol Palin for being pregnant? And 17 year olds with unplanned pregnancies are a far bigger problem than grown adults using drugs recreationally.

The War on Terror was a really stupid name. More accurately would be a
'Battle Against Terrorists'.

Using the word terror was silly, as if we were against anything scary or anyone who scared us. This would have been highly individualistic: i.e. bears terrify me, heights frighten my friend to immobility and the prices at the gas pump a few months ago scared the pants (along with our wallets) off of most of us. Using the word terrorists is much more accurate.

Now about using the word 'war', that isn't accurate either. Wars are between countries. Yes, the word 'war' is used trivially, as in a 'war of words' but should we ever use the word war to mean anything but all-out battle between two nations?
To me, using the word 'war' gave too much credibility to the terrorists, remembering that they are a very small group, who cowardly kills innocents on a regular basis.

To me it is a 'Battle Against Terrorists'. The acronym B.A.T. sounds kind of tough, as in batting them away. B.A.T. could include not just military battles but battles against poverty,(people who feel hopeless about the future are more easily recruited) and against ignorance (spreading education as defense, as the smarter the population the less people will fall for the illogic premise that blowing up innocents will change the world for the better)
I, for one, am glad using the phrase 'War on Terror' is over.