Clinton: New team not using 'war on terror' term
By ANNE GEARAN, AP Military Writer Anne Gearan, Ap Military Writer – Mon Mar 30, 5:31 pm ET
THE HAGUE, Netherlands – The phrase "global war on terror" is finished, at least as far as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is concerned.
The top U.S. diplomat told reporters Tuesday that the Obama administration has quit using that line to describe the effort to fight terrorism around the world.
"The administration has stopped using the phrase and I think that speaks for itself," Clinton said.
Clinton spoke as she headed to Europe for a week of diplomatic meetings. The phrase "war on terror" is widely disliked in Europe and elsewhere overseas, where even close U.S. allies suggested it was overly militaristic and perhaps counterproductive.
It is also now associated with a range of Bush administration policies such as harsh interrogation practices that President Barack Obama has pledged to abandon.
Clinton was asked about the phrase as she headed to Europe for a week of diplomatic meetings.
Pundits have noted the absence of the "war on terror" language, but top administration figures have had little to say on the subject before now.
"I haven't heard it used. I haven't gotten any directive about using it or not using it, it's just not being used," Clinton said.
Then-President George W. Bush used the phrase as a rallying cry after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
Okay then, what do we call it? A bunch of randowm firefights against wooly goatherders from the Northwest Frontier? An Obama/Osama hey-we-should-be-friends-now love-in? A "co-regional multi-ethnic restabilization procedure"? Fuck that. These whacko derka derka jihadi's are terrorists in anyone's books. Look it up:
terrorist
noun
a radical who employs terror as a political weapon; usually organizes with other terrorists in small cells; often uses religion as a cover for terrorist activities
Hmmm, makes you wonder just who or what the White House folks think we are fighting against. My view? Madeline Albright should have been the President. We'd be done kicking ass and taking names years ago.
And to top it all off, there goes B.O. off to gay old Europe to glad-hand the butt buddies who have done absofuckinglutely nada to help out. Just because they don't like it we won't say it, huh? Way to keep America strong, buddy.
Yeah, whatever. The thing I also dig is the faces in the crowds - these kinds of pics you always love to look at what's going on behind the scenes. There's always one douchebag too busy texting his girlfriend to notice what's going on (red circle). And you can count on a nother bag of douche who's "too fuckin' cool, bro" to appear like he gives a shit (but is secretly picking the one he wants to spend next semester stalking... he's the dude in with the Mariners cap circled in green):
