[FromLori]

This way code pink won't be able to protest...snicker

[Cindy]

A small sampler ON THE INTERNET:

FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com: "THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION AND RADICAL ISLAM" by Jamie Glazov (March 25, 2009)

WASHINGTON TIMES.com: "GAFFNEY: OUR ENEMIES SENSE WEAKNESS Retrenchments are perceived as exploitable openings" -Commentary by Frank J. Gaffney Jr (SNIPPET: "President Obama's stewardship of the national security portfolio to date amounts to a wrecking operation, a set of policies he must understand will not only weaken the United States but embolden our foes.") (March 24, 2009)

JIHAD WATCH.org (WASHINGTON POST.com): "IT'S NOT A WAR ON TERROR, IT'S AN 'OVERSEAS CONTINGENCY OPERATION'" (March 24, 2009)

DEFENSElink.mil (AMERICAN FORCES PRESS SERVICE): Washington - "MISSILE DEFENSE REQUIRES NEW FOCUS, VICE CHAIRMAN SAYS" by Army Staff Sgt. Michael J. Carden (March 23, 2009)

FOX NEWS.com: "'FUSION CENTERS' EXPAND CRITERIA TO IDENTIFY MILITIA MEMBERS" (SNIPPET: Do you like Ron Paul or oppose abortion? You may be a member of a militia, according to a new report by a government information collection agency.") by Joshua Rhett Miller (March 23, 2009)

WASHINGTON POST.com: "SECURITY WORRIES IN THE SUBURBS" by Jerry Markon (March 25, 2009)

[angkor]

“Contingency Operation”??

Sounds threatening.

How about “Doing Something”?

As in “Doing Something Overseas”?

But “Overseas” sounds too imperialistic.

So “Doing Something Somewhere”?

But “Doing” thing sounds too war-like.

So “Contemplating Something Somewhere”.

There, that’s the new Zer0 foreign policy.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

Bin Laden won :-(

[LambSlave]

This was NOT the Pentagon’s decision, it was the Obama administration relayed to the Pentagon via OMB (Office of Management and Budget).

[paulycy]

What about the threat of terror over HERE?

[nuconvert]

definition -
Contingency: 1)An event that may occur but that is not likely or intended; a possibility; 2)The condition of being dependent on chance; uncertainty.

That describes the Obama Administration’s thinking right there. Instead of realizing that a terrorist attack against us either overseas or on home turf is definitely going to happen, they think we’re fighting and dying for something that isn’t likely.

[silverleaf]

The Korean War was an “Armed Expedition” but at least we won.

How do you win an overseas contingency operation?

[Condor51]

The end of the Global War on Terror -- or at least the use of that phrase

Good.
That phrase was utter;y STOO-PID^™ because we never were in any 'Global War'. It was just another dumb catch phrase the neocons dreamed up like Axis of Evil.

If we were in a Global War, we'd be fighting from the Middle East to the Horn of Africa to Tibet and even Chechnya helping our Russian ally, against 'Global Terrorists'. And we would need an Army of 20,000,000.

But we weren't, so there wasn't.

Even WWII wasn't a 'Global War'. In our own backyard, from Mexico to the tip of South America - all were neutral. (Panama Canal Zone doesn't count)

[frankenMonkey]

I guess our Military can turn in there GWOT Expeditionary and Services Medals for some sort of "Contingency Lapel Pin"...

Here are the real deals...