"Total War Againts Terror"
Twat just flows off the tounge better. Especially in the case of our Allies the Brits.
Also this little number "Also banned is the phrase the “long war,” which military officials began using last year as a way of acknowledging that military operations against terrorist states and organizations would not be wrapped up in a few years."
Just goes to show they are hiding their heads in the sand in regards to the responcibility of defending this country. Screw facing up to the facts of the matter at large, nahh lets just rename it so that we can ignore the fact that wars take time and sacrifice in order to win.
The term GWOT is bit of a misnomer though, we are not fighting all terrorism all over the world. There are plenty of terrorist groups that we are not fighting or not even assisting some of the countries that are fighting certain terrorist groups. While some countries have a lots of capability and don't need our help, like Spain fighting the ETA, there are plenty that could use our help but don't get it. A few examples that come to mind are the LTTE (Tamil Tigers) in Sri Lanka , the Maoists in India (and formerly in Nepal) and the Kurdistan Workers Party/Kongra-Gel/PKK in Turkey. All of these are extremely violent, very effective and very powerful in their countries. With only minor help to the Turks in northern Iraq (and that is a big point of contention between us and Turkey), I am not aware of any meaningful assistance that we give to any of the aforementioned countries to fight those particular groups. There are even a few terrorist groups that operate in Iran, are we helping them?
With all of that said, it is a little bit.....well, little for the Democrats in Congress to do this. But, they are the ones writing the bodget now, the Republicans did plenty of 'little' things while they were in charge of Congress, as did the Democrats before them.........what goes around comes around again and again.........
