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May 10, 2006
Scrapping The "War On Terror" Terminology
In his Townhall.com column today, Dennis Prager makes a very important point: "The war we are fighting needs a more accurate name." When I read Dennis' title, the correctness of his statement struck me immediately--the near-ubiquitous use of the word "terror" (especially by the President) reinforces an inaccurate view of the threat facing us. Prager:
We are no more fighting a "War on Terror" than we fought a "War on Kamikazes" in World War II. Of course we had to stop Kamikaze attacks, the suicide crashing by Japanese pilots of airplanes into American war ships. But we were fighting Japanese fascism and imperialism.The same holds true today. We are fighting Islamic fascism and imperialism (though surely not all Muslims).
The jihadists are following a set of principles--unjustified by the Koran as they may be--whose genesis can be found in the writings of Islamic radicals stretching back hundreds of years. To focus on "terror" is to lose sight of the essence of the threat. Moreover, there are terrorist acts committed every year in the world that are not even related to Islamo-fascism.
I'm hereby banning all personal usage of the phrase "war on terror". It's "war against Islamo-fascism" or something similar from here on out.
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