Apparently it isn’t enough to describe our efforts to fight terrorism as Overseas Contingency Operations.  Our wondrous leaders have now decided that terrorism is not, in fact, terrorism.  There is no terrorism.  Rather, there are “man-caused disasters.”  You know, like global warming.

You see, the President’s Homeland Security Secretary thinks the word terrorism isn’t very nice, that it represents those darned old-fashioned “politics of fear.” So she wiped out terrorism with a stroke of her pen…or her tongue.

Don’t get us wrong. Janet Napolitano didn’t do anything that will save any lives or make us any safer or stop any of the bad guys. She just eliminated it from her vocabulary and renamed it a “man-caused disaster.”

I am Brian’s complete lack of surprise.  Really, we should have seen this coming.  A candidate that elevated style of substance would inevitably, as President, emphasize words over reality.

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