Posted on 05/03/2008 11:29:22 PM PDT by givemELL
Words matter, and in the global war on terror we are losing the battle of words, in a self-inflicted defeat. The consequences could not be more profound.
Recent government policy memoranda, circulating through the national counter-terrorism and diplomatic community, establishes a new "speech code" for the lexicon in the war on terror, as reported by the Associated Press and now available in the public domain .
These new "speech codes" recommended that analysts and policy makers avoid the terms jihad or jihadist or mujhadid or "al-Qaida movement" and replace them with "extremists" and by extension other non-specific terms.
The use of these "new words" and rejection of the "old words" is ostensibly designed to avoid legitimating al-Qaida and its followers while mollifying the sensitivities of the larger Muslim community.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
In times of war, the State Department needs to be sent on vacation for the duration.
Maybe vacation in sunny Gaza?
Extremists, myass.
The US State departments’ (I will bring it up once more) recent announcement of eschewing officially the terms ‘jihad, jihadist, muhahadeen, islamofascist, etc., is a pseudo-effective policy, in fact, it is an extremely destructive policy. Our policymakers, they forget Neville Chamberlain and Hitler. The immediate compliance within hours of the new directive by the House panel on Darfur on C Span 2 last week was pathetic...all parties on the panel, including those giving testimonials, avoided these terms to a man (Negroponte, Mendez, Boxer, the US rep to Darfur)...the term substituted for all these terms was..’BAD ACTORS’...pathetic. ‘Extremists’ was too severe a term for the Dem panelists, and, the persons giving testimony. ‘Bad Actors’ has been adopted as the first attempt at using new terminology, AND IT IS A FATALLY WEAK, STUPID SUBSTITUTE. The Sec. of State, is now playing a ‘piano piece’ of policy called ‘The Death March of the West’. The fact that ‘Bad Actors’ is the first recognizable compliant effort of govt. officials should be widely disseminated. It will not be. Only some Freepers will notice it.
The State Dept. is still full of Commies and pro-Arab/pro-Palestinian Socialists who could give a rat’s behind about American citizens. They “serve” our enemies, not us. I believe the State Dept. should be banished to the UAE or to Lebanon where it can represent those it coddles and adores.
I hate to say or see it but in order to shake some of our all loving liberal friends loose is to have one or two more 9/11’s. As I can see it, this is about the only thing what might turn this country in to the right direction. Let’s face it, if it walks like a duck and quakes like a duck chances are better then good it is one and the same holds true for a terrorist or what ever other name he goes by.
Wow, we have like only 90% that meet your criteria:) I agree something needs to be done to keep the careerists from opposing presidential policy....
I agree something needs to be done to keep the careerists from opposing presidential policy....
Like CUT Federal Government! It's money, it's authority, it's programs, it's overarching regulations, it's corporate taxes, it's careerist politicians. Take the money out of the (arrogant) Senators' hands. That is EXACTLY what tax cuts are primarily about (much less about "consumer/economic" mathematical models).
bump
Just good old pandering to the lesser Jihadis in order to get them behind the destruction of Iran.
Yes, yes.
I remember: the MSM and elite snobs in academia would say, "Actually, Ho Chi Minh is really a nationalist."
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