"During his commencement address to Air Force Academy graduates on Wednesday, President Bush made a fairly uncontroversial declaration. "The war on terror," he said, "will dominate your military careers." But will it always have the same name?
This morning in Financial Times, the Homeland Security Department's top intelligence official became the latest prominent leader to say that the phrase should be dropped. "It is interpreted in the Muslim world as a war on Islam and we don't need this," Under Secretary Charles E. Allen said, adding that it spreads "animus" far beyond the enemy.
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It looks like we have now got a war on the un-nameable. Muslims or Jihad can CERTAINLY not be mentioned.
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The idiocy of the pc crowd keeps going, and going, and going -- like the Energizer Bunny.
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