Shek

Interesting story. I agree that the name GWOT is a misnomer, and that something more definitive is required. I wonder what the reasoning behind this move is. If it's to develop a more fitting title, then I'm all for it. If it's a purely political move and instead uses titles that diminish the coordinated nature required of the effort, then it's a move in the wrong direction.

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dalem

The Democrats are finishing the destruction of their ability to be trusted on National Security at a record pace.

-dale

Ray

Global War on Terror is all semantics and hogwash.

Nothing is being done to the womb of terrorism - the madrassas of Pakistan.

NATO and US troops are being killed in Afghanistan at will.
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Every terrorist action is emanating from Pakistani madrassas, that is, if the US media is to be believed.

So, where is this a War on Terror?

Keeping the womb of terror alive and kicking is a War?

If so, it is a funny war where one allow her own troops to be killed and yet call it a War against those who are killing US citizens and soldiers!

Or maybe it is actually a War on Terror and the US media and the international media is lying!

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FibrillatorD

Its definitely not "fair and balanced," the whole thing being John Boehner's retort to a Democratic memo (and no doubt part of the higher Fox agenda to roil viewers against the pork-filled budget bill put forward by the majority Dems in Congress). But I gotta hand it to conservatives; they're much more feisty than Dems when they're in the minority. This is a good example of Republican-jabbing at the Dems' politically-poisonous "soft spot" (weak on terror)that will cost them the '08 elections if they can't jujitsu their way around such politicing.

At least Fox's transparent political agenda serves well to impassion Americans about their government. Over at the NYTimes all we catch is the distant-observer color commentary of how the real issue, the budget bill, (half-relavantly) compares to 1995. Just an audience, us American citizens. We should applaud when this democratic show ends.

gunnut

What are you talking about?

You sound like a liberal "intellectual" using a bunch of metaphors and big words to make yourself sound more credible.

Simple question for this issue: if not "global war on terror" then what?

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Parihaka

Shek,
words have meaning

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Shek

I'll have to post a suggestion that a book in my office made. Meanwhile, here's an old post on the subject, http://www.worldaffairsboard.com/int...hats-name.html.

Parihaka

LOL, I killed that thread off didn't I?

dalem

Might I suggest as an alternative - "Super Karate Monkey Death Car"?

-dale

Wraith601

That might be the most BS ridden post i've ever seen outside of some of thr blatant trollery we're often subjected to.

Try posting without the big words and lame metaphors, so then we might think you know what you're talking about (unlikely though).

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Ray

What's difficult to understand the post?

Big words?'

Like?

But then Americans tend to resort to hyerbole and use words and sentences that could mean anything

Give the chap a chance.

Attack the message and not the messenger is what I read so frequently on this forum!

It does not mean that I endorse his post.

Freedom and Democracy, please!

Shek

The war on the khawarij is the title suggested by Dr. Habeck in her book Amazon.com: Knowing the Enemy: Jihadist Ideology and the War on Terror: Books: Mary Habeck. The khawarij were a heterodox sect that claimed they were the only true believers (much like AQ ideology) and that other Muslim sects were non-believers who therefore apostates and subject to being killed (much like AQ). Such a title could gain traction within the Muslim world and discredit AQ ideology as heterodox as well.

Ray

Xerxes,

Comments, please!

Julie

And the Republicans are finishing the destruction of their ability to be trusted on National Security like the leaking of a CIA agent; FBI misuse of confidential data, and mostly, not being able to find more than one way to skin a cat.

Parihaka

The whole problem for it is that there's this desire for a single term to cover a whole raft of issues. The actual GWOT is a whole series of tailor-made solutions to region specific issues, one overarching term is by nature going to sound facile.
Also the war is adapting as new tactics are employed by all sides, so GWOT now sounds simplistic. The new name should be based in the reality that there are multiple levels to it and multiple strategies needed.
If anything 'hearts and minds' applies better than war on terror. It's got me puzzling actually.