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To: KLP who wrote (176540)	8/14/2006 5:28:28 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793559

And regarding the term "war on terror"....can you think of a better one? Assuming that the WOT is actually a war on terror, the word, "war," is, indeed, problematic for the reasons you describe. It has a lot of baggage. And it sounds so, er, warlike. We have wars on this and that--poverty, drugs, etc.--and they are different from the WOT in that there aren't any military battles involved. The WOT has many aspects, one of which is actual war, which surely puts off the pacifists and even some middle of the roaders, the former eschewing actual war and the latter being more circumspect about it. I think something like "anti-terror initiative" would be better. That wouldn't be so military-centric. I think it's useful to have a label that suggests that there are multiple tools in the toolkit and war is just one. If the WOT isn't actually about terror but about Islamic militancy, then we should frame it that way. The notion of a war against a tactic has always been sorta dumb. We could broaden it to religious militancy even though the only religious militants on the stage right now are Islamic. That framing has the advantage of giving the normal Muslims and easier path to be on our side. Religious Militancy Defense Initiative. Doesn't mean you can't go on the offense, only that you have the moral high ground of defense and a lot better optics. Snowball is the cutest. I liked Joe Dirt best, but there's no such thing as an ugly kitten IMO. (Well, maybe the hairless ones.) Did you play along for a while? Did you notice how close to 50-50 most of the calls are--sort of like our elections. Even the highest scoring winners are only at about 75%. It seems like that should mean something but I don't know what.