Monday, May 05, 2008

U.S. government waffling

We read:
"Recent government policy memoranda, circulating through the national counter-terrorism and diplomatic community, establishes a new "speech code" for the lexicon in the war on terror, as reported by the Associated Press and now available in the public domain .

These new "speech codes" recommended that analysts and policy makers avoid the terms jihad or jihadist or mujhadid or "al-Qaida movement" and replace them with "extremists" and by extension other non-specific terms.

The use of these "new words" and rejection of the "old words" is ostensibly designed to avoid legitimating al-Qaida and its followers while mollifying the sensitivities of the larger Muslim community

Source

GWB has recently said the J-word, however. The speech codes probably come from the bureaucracy.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well, that's one way to end terrorism, just call it something else! GWB must have learned that from the left, since that's one of their favorite tricks. When they come up with one of their dumb ideas that the public doesn't like, they simply change the name!

Socialized medicine (a.k.a.) Universal health care!

Anonymous said...

What a bunch of crap! Left America needs to open up their eyes. They are so worried about offending terrorists. It's sickening. They are selling out our country. God help us. Oops! We're not supposed to say God.

Anonymous said...

The speech codes probably come from the bureaucracy.

More likely they come from the enemy, foreign or domestic.