Global SAVE - Global Struggle Against Violent Extremism

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So that's the new motto.

It seemed like a rather and mouthful - until you think about the acronym. :argh:

They are so insane.


Slate had an article about it last week:

"...Look at the first letters of Global War on Terrorism. GWOT. What does that mean; how is it pronounced? Gwot? Too frivolously rowdy, like a fight scene in a Marvel comic book (Bam! Pfooff! Gwot!). Gee-wot? Sounds like a garbled question (Gee what?).

Then look at Global Struggle Against Violent Extremism. Its acronym is GSAVE—i.e., gee-save. We're out to save the world, see, not wage war on it. Or, as national security adviser Stephen Hadley puts it in the Times piece, "We need to dispute both the gloomy vision and offer a positive alternative."

Does Hadley, and do all our other top officials, really believe this nonsense? Are they so enraptured with PR that they think a slogan and a strategy are the same thing and that retooling the one will transform the other? Have we lapsed into the banality of the mid-'70s, when President Gerald Ford tried to beat back 20-percent price hikes by urging Americans to wear gigantic lapel pins that read "WIN"—for Whip Inflation Now?

The Times notes, midway into the story, that the "language shifts" come at a time when Karen Hughes, one of President Bush's most trusted advisers, is about to take over the State Department's office of "public diplomacy." If changing GWOT to GSAVE is a sign of campaigns to come, we are in sorrier shape than anyone might previously have imagined."

http://slate.msn.com/id/2123412/

[TahitiNut]

1. Well, a jihad by any other name ...

... (like "crusade") smells the same, I guess. :puke:

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6. It's interesting to me

because I've had fundys try to convince me that we are not fighting in the name of religion - like the "Muslims" do.

[RobertSeattle]

2. I like how they had to add "Violent Extremism" instead of just "Extremism"

Lest they punk Goldwater's old rant from the 1964 convention.

[In Truth We Trust]

3. kinda like the frame they tired to implant b4: Homicide bombers-asshats

[liberal N proud]

4. And to save the world we will blow up most of it!

We simply started with Iraq

[DS1]

5. I thought it was Religious Extremism

:shrug:

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8. NO, no, no

Bush is supporting Religious Extremism. All the better to create enemies and increase the military. :silly:

[jaxx]

7. Don't it just piss you off?

1820 dead American soldiers and the bushco's change the name of the game. Somebody ought to impeach the whole crew.

Imminently!

[glitch]

9. What's been more extreme than 'Shock and Awe', lately?

I believe 100,000 civilians were killed in that one.
And let us not forget Falluja.

Sickening hypocrites.

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10. ...

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