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Obama Scraps 'Global War on Terror' for 'Overseas Contingency Operation'

So calling out stupidity when I see it is stupid?
You're calling out stupidity for the sake of stupidity. Like pointing at grass and calling it green, there's no point to it.
 
You're calling out stupidity for the sake of stupidity. Like pointing at grass and calling it green, there's no point to it.
Sure there was. My point is that the name was ridiculous and I am glad it has been changed to something a bit more appropriate. It is quite unfortunate that nothing else will change besides the name.
 
You're calling out stupidity for the sake of stupidity. Like pointing at grass and calling it green, there's no point to it.

What if you are teaching a child what colors are? Or are trying to explain the color to someone who is color-blind?


There's no doubt that there are some people in this world who are "stupid-blind". ;)
 
Sure there was. My point is that the name was ridiculous and I am glad it has been changed to something a bit more appropriate.
Oh. :roll:
Well, so what?
 
It's a ridiculous title that was thrown down right after 9/11 in order to galvanize popular support for our operations against various terror organizations. But it's intellectually misleading because you can't actually wage a war against a religious or political strategy or idealism.

I'm glad he's scrapping it because it was a stupid title. Like I said, you come back when you can articulate how he's actually putting our national security at risk.



so what do you think of the new term calling terrorist attacke "man causes disasters"?
 
So in Obama's brave new world, there are no terrorist attacks but "man-caused disasters" and now the GWoT is now called 'Overseas Contingency Operation'. What purpose does this silly newspeak do? Is this to placate the enemy? To soften our stance of defense of our people. What is the point?

It was the "Global War On Terror" that was the silly newspeak: it was an absurd effort by Bush to justify an unnecessary war in Iraq by imputing an Iraqi connection to 911 and the prospect of imminent terror attacks coming from Iraq, all of which was fraudulent. This is what happens when you take policy away from the grownups and hand it over to Cecil B. DeMille and the Publicity Department.
 
It was the "Global War On Terror" that was the silly newspeak: it was an absurd effort by Bush to justify an unnecessary war in Iraq by imputing an Iraqi connection to 911 and the prospect of imminent terror attacks coming from Iraq, all of which was fraudulent. This is what happens when you take policy away from the grownups and hand it over to Cecil B. DeMille and the Publicity Department.

Saddam's non-compliance and shooting at our planes over the no-fly zone is what brought about Operation Iraqi Freedom, which is the name of that operation.
The Global War on Terror was fought in many countries. Anywhere terrorist cells were found.
This is straight out of Wiki's War on Terror entry:
"Our war on terror begins with al Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated." - Bush
"Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred." - Obama

It looks like they're saying about the same thing but Obama is just hiding the word terrorist :shock: What does that accomplish and why would he do that?
 
It was the "Global War On Terror" that was the silly newspeak: it was an absurd effort by Bush to justify an unnecessary war in Iraq by imputing an Iraqi connection to 911 and the prospect of imminent terror attacks coming from Iraq, all of which was fraudulent. This is what happens when you take policy away from the grownups and hand it over to Cecil B. DeMille and the Publicity Department.



Why do you keep trying to tie 911 to iraw? :confused:
 
The Obama administration will prove to be a disaster on foreign policy. So far their direction seems to be to turn their back on our long term allies and reach out to China, Russia and Iran. This is "Carter Crap" and America will forever be weakened if weakness is our new creed.
 
I love Charlie Daniel's response to all of this. He is cracking me up :rofl



...Do these people actually think that by calling something by a kinder gentler name they can make it less dangerous? This is downright stupid. Yes, I said it. It's stupid...

Well Mr. Obama, I might have missed it but I haven't heard you mention 9/11 once, and just in case you've forgotten these noble enemy comba… sorry, "foreign mischief-making citizens", -or whatever you end up calling them- of yours murdered over 3000 of our citizens in three different locations on American soil and your milksop definitions of these pus ball killers :eek: is just not good enough for me.

I have some suggestions for your vocabulary:

Rattlesnake - triangle-headed surface crawler

Black Widow Spider - red dotted black circle

Shark - fish with a toothy smile

Grizzly Bear - big cuddly fuzzball

Dynamite - stringed red stick

Ted Bundy - homo sapien with a slight attitude

Jeffrey Dahmer - peculiarly-appetited loner


Charlie Daniels - 2009 Soapbox Archives



The whole thing is worth a read.
Reminds me, it's time for our exterminator's quarterly visit. We've had a problem with red dotted black circles :eek: :)
 
The Obama administration will prove to be a disaster on foreign policy. So far their direction seems to be to turn their back on our long term allies and reach out to China, Russia and Iran. This is "Carter Crap" and America will forever be weakened if weakness is our new creed.

I noticed that also. Seems like there is a new Operation Chaos in town.
 
So in Obama's brave new world, there are no terrorist attacks but "man-caused disasters" and now the GWoT is now called 'Overseas Contingency Operation'. What purpose does this silly newspeak do? Is this to placate the enemy? To soften our stance of defense of our people. What is the point?
He's a narcissistic people-pleaser--he's saying what he thinks will make people happy today, with no care for tomorrow.

That said....

I don't give a rat's ass what he calls things so long as the objective is to kill the terrorists overseas rather than on American soil. If we're killing terrorists over there and not over here, it's all good. If we're not killing terrorists, then we need to get on with it.

My concern is not that he's changing the name, but that's he's changing the objective; it would suck to think he intends to let terrorists continue breathing.
 
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