Andy McCarthy at National Review Online has unkind but entirely accurate things to say about the renaming of the “Global War On Terror” to “Global Struggle Against Violent Extremism”:

So, the folks who brought you “compassionate conservatism” now offer “The Global Struggle Against Violent Extremism.” Perfect: A war that’s not called a war for fear of making people think about war, which is waged against an enemy who is not identified for fear of offending mass-murderers and the people who coddle them, and which occurs everywhere on the planet so no one is left out, but nowhere specific so no one is put in.

I don’t believe that President George W. Bush will rally Americans by giving the war a name that suggests no particular urgency.

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