What to call the war?

Post #8,965 by wharris2 9/13/01 7:32:33 PM Reply	What to call the war? Jerry Pournelle of the love/hate Byte fame has suggested calling it the Black September War. That no man should scruple, or hesitate a moment to use arms in defense of so valuable a blessing [as freedom], on which all the good and evil of life depends, is clearly my opinion; yet arms ... should be the last resource. - George Washington
Post #8,973 by ChrisR 9/13/01 8:12:56 PM Reply	Don't know... ...but there was a NPR report not long ago on the subject of naming military operations. Seems the DOD has a database that makes suggestions for such things.
Post #8,984 by inthane-chan 9/13/01 9:31:54 PM Reply	IIRC... I heard that too. As I recall, it picks two letters, and then the planners pick two words that match the letters. Names do not have to come from the military though... "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
Post #9,010 by gdaustin 9/13/01 11:09:31 PM Reply	Wag The Dog Except we should tell George "Dubya" that he's not supposed to start a real war. Just a pretend one. Sounds like the Arabs are wagging our dog, the WTG war is appropriate. It will be waged on television. Glen Austin
Post #9,016 by wharris2 9/13/01 11:36:14 PM Reply	slap slap In "Wag the Dog", it was a fake war, with fake casualties, and fake action. Go to New York. Walk through the ash cloud. Examine the debris. This is not a "wag the dog", this is dead (intential) serious. Wag the dog? You are an utter cretin for even suggesting it. That no man should scruple, or hesitate a moment to use arms in defense of so valuable a blessing [as freedom], on which all the good and evil of life depends, is clearly my opinion; yet arms ... should be the last resource. - George Washington
Post #9,025 by gdaustin 9/13/01 11:52:58 PM Reply	Re: slap slap You miss the point. The humor in the joke is that George W. doesn't know the difference between a real war and a fake one. Sadly, I think I've heard enough stories from my parents and grandparents to know the difference. I'd much rather limit our freedoms for the rest of my life than to kill every Arab in the world. I do believe that this was a desparate act by a few (hundred) really sick and desparate people who want us to start WW III. Glen Austin
Post #9,051 by Ashton 9/14/01 3:49:40 AM Reply	Hardly just that.. Check out Doug Marker's brief bio of bin Ladin - linked above to Open? forum. bL has patience and more power than press slogans would suggest. Like Hitler: he indeed has a plan, strategy and will. It's about Fundamentalism - Theocracy over any other form of government. (In that, I believe we find the sole agreement among most organized religions: The Fundamentalists all want their beliefs to govern us all. Because they are Right and all others er - well, we know). Doug's may not be a complete bio, but several of the points accord with other sources I have seen in the past. Nemesis to US is about the exact word. A.

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