Fools of Statecraft
Today from the BBC:
The Bush administration is abandoning the phrase “war on terror” to better express the fight against al-Qaeda and other groups as an ideological struggle as much as a military mission.
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In recent days, senior administration figures have been speaking publicly of “a global struggle against the enemies of freedom”, and of the need to use all “tools of statecraft” to defeat them.
Tools of statecraft?!? What the hell does that mean?
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[...] up job of mocking the War on Terror vocabulary adjustment I mentioned the other day, over in this thread: New Names for the ‘War on Terror̵ [...]