shadow.foreignpolicy.com - 1/25/2009
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By Peter Feaver So says Dana Priest , the Post's prize-winning reporter, in today’s paper. To her, Obama's actions had the collective symbolic effect of "ending the war on terror.” Moreover, Priest asserts, Obama intended for this to be the signal sent by his actions. To be sure, ...
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Bush's 'War' On Terror Comes to a Sudden End
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AP - The "War on Terror" is losing
the war of words. The catchphrase burned into the...
American lexicon hours after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, is fading away, slowly if not deliberately being replaced by a new administration bent on repairing ...
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The Truth On Gitmo
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
What the President’s Executive Order really means:
. . . Contrary to reports, Obama did not shut down Gitmo. Rather, he issued an order saying he will (or, to be precise, he intends to and is willing to commit in advance to) shut down Gitmo in a year’s time. This, to mix a metaphor, is kicking the can as far down the road as he possibly can without being penalized for delay of game. Or, to mix yet another metaphor, Obama is promising to write a popular book in a year’s time and is happy to pocket a sizable advance of good ...
The Truth On Gitmo
A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days —
What the President's Executive Order really means : . . . Contrary to reports, Obama did not shut down Gitmo. Rather, he issued an order saying he will (or, to be precise, he intends to and is willing to commit in advance to) shut down Gitmo in a year's time. This, to mix a metaphor, is kicking the can as far down the road as he possibly can without being penalized for delay of game. Or, to mix yet another metaphor, Obama is promising to write a popular book in a year's time and is happy to pocket a sizable advance of good will and commentary now; book to be ...
The War On The War On Terror
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Peter Feaver debates the "war on terror" label: The two views of whether we are at war or not can be reconciled -- if Obama intends to say that we are really at war, but we will voluntarily not use all of the tools of war because we do not need to. That is certainly a popular straddle today. Whether it will still be popular if the country suffers another terrorist attack remains to be seen. In the meantime, one of the things I will be watching in the coming months is how the Obama team navigates its way through the symbolic minefield of labeling ...
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