Brit’s Stop Using Bush’s War on Terror Phrase
Posted in H.L. News, Main Blog (All Posts) on April 16th, 2007 5:15 am by HL
UK: No more ‘war on terror’
AP
Excerpt:
LONDON – The British government has stopped using the phrase “war on terror” to refer to the struggle against political and religious violence, according to a Cabinet minister’s prepared remarks for a Monday speech.
International Development Secretary Hilary Benn, a rising star of the governing Labour Party, says in a speech prepared for delivery in New York that the expression popularized by President Bush after the Sept. 11 attacks strengthens terrorists by making them feel part of a bigger struggle.
Extracts from Benn’s speech at New York University’s Center on International Cooperation were released by his office.
“We do not use the phrase ‘war on terror’ because we can’t win by military means alone, and because this isn’t us against one organized enemy with a clear identity and a coherent set of objectives,” Benn said.
April 17th, 2007 at 6:12 pm
The Brits stopped calling our nation the colonies along time ago. When they cant handle war, after a while they quit using phrases.
Sumbitch!! The terrorists have scared the Brits and the French and the antiwar crowd in the USA into not using phrases.
How bout’ you H.L.?? Are you afraid of the War on Terror term??? Are you in denial of the war on terror??
I say it with ease…………..war on terror..war on terror…war on terror……ha ha ha ha ha