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I'd Heard...
...about this internal struggle within the White House.
The War Against Terror (T.W.A.T.) is becoming deeply unpopular so, rather than change anything of substance - or even get a half-decent plan worked out - we'll just change the name.
Easy-peasy.
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posted by
DamonLeigh
on August 6, 2005 at 8:06 AM
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Kooka check that, this just in
August 4, 2005
President Makes It Clear: Phrase Is 'War on Terror'
GRAPEVINE, Tex., Aug. 3 - President Bush publicly overruled some of his top advisers on Wednesday in a debate about what to call the conflict with Islamic extremists, saying, "Make no mistake about it, we are at war."
In a speech here, Mr. Bush used the phrase "war on terror" no less than five times. Not once did he refer to the "global struggle against violent extremism," the wording consciously adopted by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and other officials in recent weeks after internal deliberations about the best way to communicate how the United States views the challenge it is facing.
posted by
scoop
on August 4, 2005 at 9:41 AM
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Kooka maybe you didn't get the memo Bush changed the name
from the "War On Terror/Terrorism" to the "Global Struggle Against Extremism's" but the Crayola Color Alert stays the same.
posted by
scoop
on August 4, 2005 at 9:29 AM
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true
if you want to win any war you must set goals -- good goals -- and stick to them --
of course this war has many heads, like a hydra, so there is some difficulty
but it also has it reasons
- one is the West's exploitation of the Third World, particularly the Middle East
- then there is U.S. support for repressive regimes, such as Iran's Shah
- failure to repress certain civil wars, etc, such as that in Lebanon some decades back
- support of Israel without too much attempting to work with the Arab world on this one
and I am sure that more knowledgeable persons can add to this list.
We begin to build bridges and then we begin to see less support for "terrorism".
but the military-industrial complex is too powerful for any administration to change things in a manner that would be a perceived detriment to them.
posted by
Xeno-x
on August 4, 2005 at 9:07 AM
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Excellent...
...post, kooka!
But you know, for me, the stupidity excuse is starting to wear a bit thin. As you demonstrate, NO-ONE can be that stupid, surely. And that's made me look again, and I'm wondering if there's actually cleverness here, disguised as stupidity.
Specifically, a divided people - US, Iraq, wherever - are a conquered people. And people living in fear - again, in the US, Iraq, wherever - are easy to rule, unlikely to stick their heads up above the parapet to see what's really going on. Fearful people allow their freedoms to be removed. Fearful people become pliant, and accepting of almost anything a corrupt government throws at them.
See what I'm getting at? I feel a post coming on...
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posted by
DamonLeigh
on August 4, 2005 at 8:54 AM
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