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Imagining Victory
2006-08-12
THE FIRST STEP TO victory on the global war terror will be dropping that stupid name “global war on terror.” This is the first war in our history where we’ve declined to even identify who we’re fighting. In the Civil War, the Union didn’t pause to label the Rebs and in World War II we willingly called out the Axis Powers.

I dislike the PC names of things: "Religion of Peace" or "Global War on Terror". Failing to call things by their correct names results in category error. One ends up solving the wrong problem: like strip searching old ladies to avoid profiling young Arab-looking men.

shrinkwrapped
Posted by:SR-71

#5  Dan Simmons on the long-term consequences of this particular category error: the One Hundred Years War with Islam.
Posted by: Kalle (kafir forever)   2006-08-12 23:27  

#4  I wonder what Charles Martel called it?
Posted by: Mark E.   2006-08-12 21:17  

#3  Thanks!
Posted by: SR-71   2006-08-12 20:11  

#2  Fixed. ;-)
Posted by: lotp   2006-08-12 20:09  

#1  I blew the link to Shrinkwrapped. Sorry
Posted by: SR-71   2006-08-12 20:07  

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