The Global War On Terror: All Gone Now!

It seems that, according the Obama Administration, the "Global War On Terror" is all over with. I can't quite remember if we celebrated "V-GWT Day" like our previous "V-E Day" or "V-J Day" when we won in both Europe and in Japan during World War II; but, we must have had one and I just missed it. This is a really big deal.

The only reason that I know that we might have won is because the Pentagon has been "told" to drop the "War on Terror" thing and we have moved on to a new clean-up operation called the "Overseas Contingency Operation" (See Full Story) . This position was just confirmed yesterday by Hillary Clinton while overseas (See Full Story).

I think the word "contingency" is an interesting choice. What that word implies is one of a reactionary mode or, more appropriately: "We ain't going to do nothing until you terrorists boys (and, sometimes terrorist girls) attack us again!" I guess we'll just kick back; suck down a beer or two; and wait for the next attack.

So, I get it: No more words like terrorist that might offend those few Muslims who might want to mass kill or behead us all. I suppose that word was very hurtful to their feelings. We wouldn't want do anything like that. After all, Obama is the new, Kum-ba-ya President.

I think the change in wording signals more than that. My guess is that we will go back to the Clinton years when terrorism was just treated like a police action and not a military action. You know, the kind of dumb policy which led up to 9/11.

I suppose that after an attack, we'll condemn the bastards that killed any Americans and, then, died while doing it. Then we'll hunt down those who might also been responsible. From that point on, our Miranda-card carrying cops of some kind will catch 'em; read them their rights; and bring them to justice in our U.S. courts. Because there's no more Gitmo, we can let them out on bail and, just maybe, Eric Holder will put them up in a U.S. hotel while waiting for their day in court. If they aren't convicted...well...they'll have to be let go on to our city streets. Or better yet, they can sue us for false arrest or imprisonment and they can all become millionaires at our expense! Isn't America great!

Whatever the case, this is a good time to be a terrorist. How do you say "Happy days are here, again!" in Arabic?

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