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The Dumbest Term You Could Use?
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| Contributor | ArmyDem |
| Last Edited | ArmyDem Jan 03, 2010 09:55am |
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| News Date | Saturday, January 2, 2010 03:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The Obama administration, wisely in my view, seems to mostly eschew the “war on terror” catchphrase. Lately, that fact has become the basis of a lot of nonsense smears from the usual suspects. Representative Pete Hoekstra, meanwhile, has been on a tear ever since the Underpants Bomber struck, seeking to leverage the failed attack into political gain. He’s ridden this stuff all the way to a booking on ABC tomorrow morning. I wonder if he’ll get asked about his take on the “war on terror” business from back in the spring of 2008:
Peter Hoekstra, the top Republican on the House intelligence committee, in an interview said the phrase ”war on terror” was the “dumbest term…you could use”. The Michigan lawmaker, who criticises the Bush administration for using an overly aggressive tone, says he has urged Stephen Hadley, the national security adviser, not to use the expression.
Ever since the Bush administration first unveiled the term, my feeling has been that this is an overdebated issue and it doesn’t matter all that much one way or another. That said, “war on terror” does seem to me to have a variety of bad implications, including the fact that it’s hard to see how you’re ever going to be able to say you’ve “won” something like a “war on terror.” |
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