The War on Terror is Over– at Least in Name

  First we had the Obama administration decide to stop using the term “enemy combatant” to describe those who were captured on the battlefield fighting against us and who are currently being held at GITMO, then we had the head of Homeland Security say that instead of calling terrorist attacks terrorist attacks we would now call them “man caused disasters”, and now we have learned that the global war on terror is over, at least in name. Instead of the global war on terror we are now involved in the “‘Overseas Contingency Operation.”

  We are seeing this administration taking the politically correct lexicon to a whole new level. We are doing everything possible to coddle these terrorists men who cause man-made disasters even as we send more soldiers to Afghanistan to fight them.

  I think this does a huge disservice to our brave men and women who will be headed over there. I am tired of this humanization of these inhuman terrorists. Why does this administration feel that they have to validate these people? Why are they so afraid to offend our enemy?

  These changes in the terms are not going to make them any less belligerent towards us, it is going to justify their belief that we are a paper tiger and show them we are weak.

  In the book “1984” the government and the people  used a term called newspeak to describe the language. The government would do one thing while doing the opposite, as an example they would cut down rations while telling everyone they were increasing them. They would then destroy all the books and print new ones so that the actions of the government were confirmed. That is kind of like what is  going on here. We are fighting terrorists in a war, yet we no longer use those terms in the hope that the war will fade from people’s memory. Political correctness is nothing but a form of newspeak.