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![]() Just Above Sunset
August 7, 2005 - Back to the War on Terror (What's in a name?)
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Last weekend in Semantics: Thucydides got it right a long time ago... you would find a long discussion of how our government had decided to change how we discuss what we are doing around the
world. The Global War on Terror (GWOT) was to become the Global Struggle Against
Violent Extremism (GSAVE) - a change in terms to better capture what we were doing.
Yes, it was awkward, but not a bad idea. Precision is nice. The Washington Monthly
provides the story of the rise and fall of this acronym. So what the hell happened
here? Did Rumsfeld and Myers go off the reservation? Did Schmitt and Shanker screw the pooch, inventing a major policy shift
out of a few vaguely worded remarks from anonymous sources? Or was it a deliberate effort to run GSAVE up the flagpole, which
was then hastily hauled back in when it became the butt of jokes? Who knows? Perhaps it was a bit of all three. It’s dead. It's extinct. |
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