Adventures in Re-Branding: "War on Terra" to get name change

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Oh, what will Frank Luntz be able to conjure up this time?

Washington Recasts Terror War as "Struggle"

― kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 06:19 (twenty years ago)

I have to say I agree with the new name and the rationale, at least in theory. Isn't this exactly what people have been asking for for years?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 06:22 (twenty years ago)

I mean, aside from the cessation of US-sponsored murder and international crime.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 06:28 (twenty years ago)

true, but i like the idea that they'll just gunna stay that course and never change what they've been doing for four years, only with a new name which tests better.

― kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 06:34 (twenty years ago)

tho there is something to be said for their abilities to co-opt the language of their political(and military) enemies for their own uses:

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=jihad

― kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 06:36 (twenty years ago)

Hm, I don't!

xpost

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 06:36 (twenty years ago)

People like to chuckle about "how can you declare war on a method," but I very much believe that violence begets idological extremism and not the other way around, at least in 2005

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 06:37 (twenty years ago)

'Jihad on Jihad'

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 06:46 (twenty years ago)

Also known as the circle jerk.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 06:47 (twenty years ago)

Hm, I don't!

tho i was being sarcastic there, but...

― kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 06:48 (twenty years ago)

Oh!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 06:52 (twenty years ago)

"i'm lovin' it"

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 07:13 (twenty years ago)

Lakoff's bit on it

...What is most important is what is not being said. The Bush administration is implicitly, through the use of language, admitting that war won’t stop terrorism and that the war in Iraq had no justification. Important questions arise and must be asked: If this is not a “war”, does the president still have the war powers given him by Congress? If there is no “war” anymore, how can there be “enemy combatants” in Guantanamo, whose imprisonment without due process is being justified by “war.” If there is no “war,” will we still need to call up the reserves and the National Guard? And is the new framing retroactive? Was there ever a “war” on terror? Was it just mistake to think so?

― kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 5 August 2005 06:07 (twenty years ago)

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