The names have been changed…
Remember a few years ago when the Post Office was rebranded as Consignia but, despite its new image, carried on regardless providing the same old shitty service?
Ahem.
Posted on April 16th, 2007 at 7:56 am
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It was a misnomer from the start, utterly meaningless. A “War on Terror” is a war on, like, being really scared of something. You cannot make war on an emotion.
It would have made more sense to make war on “terrorISTS” but that does not have the same sense that we are fighting some kind of ideology. The fallacy is to suppose that ‘terror’ is an ideology like Nazism, when it is in fact a weapon, used by people with differing agendas. You might as well declare a war on tanks or guns…
So I welcome Benn’s comments, though I’m not sure what use they are right now.
It’s also worth remembering that ‘terrorism’ formed a large part of the justification for the Nazi power grab.
He’s on a hiding to nothing. None of the US MSM (along with most bloggers) will be able to get over the fact that he has the same first name as Ms Rodham Clinton.
Trouble is, almost every other name they’ve tried to come up with has failed. Blair keeps redefining the conflict every time he changes his shirt (or so it seems). Team Bush try the same tactic to cope with Dubya’s attention span (or whatever). It’s like the numerous attempts to come up with something to replace ‘New Labour’, like some product relaunch: ‘NuLab GTi 2.0 Turbo’.
Oh, and Benn’s about six years too late in any case.
As I said elsewhere, I had assumed Hilary Benn was a woman until today, it shows you how much impact he had…
Pity he was only 12 days behind teh americans in doing this…..
http://www.militarytimes.com/news/2007/04/military_gwot_democrats_070403w/