Britain stops talk of 'war on terror'

[CatWoman]

Foreign Office has asked ministers to ditch the phrase invented by Bush to avoid stirring up tensions within the Islamic world

Jason Burke
Sunday December 10, 2006
The Observer

Cabinet ministers have been told by the Foreign Office to drop the phrase 'war on terror' and other terms seen as liable to anger British Muslims and increase tensions more broadly in the Islamic world.

The shift marks a turning point in British political thinking about the strategy against extremism and underlines the growing gulf between the British and American approaches to the continuing problem of radical Islamic militancy. It comes amid increasingly evident disagreements between President George Bush and Tony Blair over policy in the Middle East.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,,1968668,00.html

[IndianaGreen]

1. What? The poodle is getting feisty?

Blair is still Bush's bitch, as in dog.

[napi21]

2. Thank God somebody has the b's to stop this BS. I've hated that

term since they started it! The other thing I hate is the name "Homeland"! I'm really too young to remember Hitler, but I think he referred to Germany as The Homeland too! I guess that's why I hate it so much.

I'd like to take the pub dictonary and stuff it up......

[EFerrari]

3. Wasn't it "fatherland"? The reason those terms are hateful

is that they are used by criminals to manipulate the public, no?

I'm starting to cringe every time someone used "patriot" and also "democracy" -- as in "Beware of Americans bearing democracy".

[napi21]

5. I really don't know, but the first time I heard "Homeland" the first thing

I thought of was Hitler!

[CatWoman]

6. Napi21

there's an old Star Trek episode, Patterns of Force, in which that term is used over and over.

When Bush first started using it, my mind immediately went to that episode.



http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/library/episodes/TOS/detail/68764.html

[Norrin Radd]

4. Good, because I don't understand how a war can be waged on an emotion. n/t