"Bad Boy" Billy Kristol (Weekly Standard) on BUSH V. RUMSFELD

[laststeamtrain]

LAST WEEK IN THESE PAGES we called attention to the John-Kerry-like attempt of some Bush advisers, led by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, to abandon the term "war on terror." These advisers had been, as the New York Times reported, going out of their way to avoid "formulations using the word 'war.'" The great effort that we had all simplemindedly been calling a war was now dubbed by Rumsfeld the "global struggle against violent extremism." And the solution to this struggle was, according to Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, speaking here as Rumsfeld's cat's-paw, "more diplomatic, more economic, more political than it is military."
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/923vgvjf.asp

I LOVE internecine war on the Right, even over the word 'war'.

[GeorgeBushytail]

1. Bush doesn't want to be a Struggle President

Doesn't sound manly.

[wli]

2. trying to make it easier to call Democrats and bloggers "terrorists"

That's all the change in wording is meant to do.

[shraby]

3. They're trying to change the wording from war

to struggle because they don't want executed for outing a CIA agent during a time of war. Read this.
<http://citizenspook.blogspot.com/>