Trying to control the other fellow’s vocabulary
Bookworm on Aug 06 2009 at 5:52 pm | Filed under: Uncategorized
Obama truly thinks his words are so magical they can change reality. It’s true that, as to the people over whom you have control, changing and shrinking vocabulary can affect thoughts, but Obama doesn’t seem to grasp that he has no control over the jihadists. If he did grasp that, he wouldn’t have his administration saying “Abracadabra” and then pronouncing the jihad against America over by removing words from the American vocabulary:
It’s official. The U.S. is no longer engaged in a “war on terrorism.” Neither is it fighting “jihadists” or in a “global war.”
President Obama’s top homeland security and counterterrorism official took all three terms off the table of acceptable words inside the White House during a speech Thursday at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank.
“The President does not describe this as a ‘war on terrorism,’” said John Brennan, head of the White House homeland security office, who outlined a “new way of seeing” the fight against terrorism.
The only terminology that Mr. Brennan said the administration is using is that the U.S. is “at war with al Qaeda.”
“We are at war with al Qaeda,” he said. “We are at war with its violent extremist allies who seek to carry on al Qaeda’s murderous agenda.”
Bugs Bunny had a word for Obama: What a maroon.
Hat tip: Elanamama
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Interesting. While I never cared for the “War on Terror” (poor word choice to make war on a tactic) but I did understand that it encompassed all organizations involved in terror, and the states that support them; the biased numbskulls tend to forget Bush’s original speech on fighting terror and what it entailed which makes them more ignorant than any of their claims of Bush’s ignorance. Al-Qaeda is more an umbrella group than the actual perpetrator of all those terrorists acts, so going after them only, or using their name constantly, is simply showing ignorance of the actual problem. I would prefer the phrase “War on Jihadists” as they are responsible for over 95+% of the thousands of acts of terror since 9/11. I am not worried about the fundamentalist Hindus nor the Tamil Tigers (gone now). They are/were insignificant compared to the Islamic fundamentalists.
Bugs Bunny was prescient with “what a maroon”.