Gato_Solo
Out-freaking-standing OTC member
your tax dollars with Congress...get it?
The House Armed Services Committee is banishing the global war on terror from the 2008 defense budget.
This is not because the war has been won, lost or even called off, but because the committee’s Democratic leadership doesn’t like the phrase.
A memo for the committee staff, circulated March 27, says the 2008 bill and its accompanying explanatory report that will set defense policy should be specific about military operations and “avoid using colloquialisms.”
The “global war on terror,” a phrase first used by President Bush shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the U.S., should not be used, according to the memo. 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.
I seriously doubt that anyone 'wants it to fail' or is rooting for failure. Then again, i don't think that throwing more money or troops at the problem is any guarantee of success.
Instead, we let bean-counters and media pundits run the war, and the result is what we have now. If you notice, you hardly hear a word about Afghanistan anymore. Know why? Nobody is protesting Afghanistan, so there is no news value there. There was in the beginning, but...as the tail wags the dog...the reporting there was abandoned over media interest. Nobody likes to hear about the good guy winning...
Had the left STFU & not played politics
Gonz said:the liberal protesters are in favor of free speech...so long as it agrees with them. Instead of providing debate, they'll just shut down the war mongering hate filled animal flesh eating right wing asshole because, Allah knows, we can't have both sides presented.
Apparently it's the right (you) that doesn't want both sides presented.
As can be clearly shown from stories I've put in the RW for several years now...the left gets violent more often & attempts to stop free speech far more often than the right.