View Full Version : Britain drops 'War on Terror' term
teslafire
18-04-2007, 10:41 AM
11.06, Mon Apr 16 2007
The War on Terror tag is being dropped by the UK Government and Development Secretary Hilary Benn is urging the US to do the same.
Mr Benn said the term, coined by the White House after the 9/11 attacks, made small terrorist groups feel too important.
He will warn that the US rhetoric has given terrorists a "shared identity" and strengthens small disaffected groups with widely differing aims by making them feel part of something "bigger".
http://www.itv.com/news/britain_d0988f0cdefa3cabeb9feaff180d634f.html
montag
18-04-2007, 10:49 AM
There dropping it because it has served their purposes well enough and it's now time to start the promotion of the new 'Climate change' tag. Just another part of the natural swing from the right to the left paradigm/illusion.
These people or on some Utopian dream here.
Mr Benn will say that "hard power" alone cannot win the battle against terrorism in an "interconnected world", and a multilateral approach is needed.
"It can certainly win the battle - but without soft power, we cannot win the war that will deliver better governance, sustainable peace and lasting prosperity.
"The fight for the kind of world that most people want can, in the end, only be won in a different battle - a battle of values and ideas."
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edelweiss pirate
18-04-2007, 11:45 AM
That's good in my view......
The terrorists and the politicians are just two baps of the same shit sandwich anyways...
It's now public record that former MI6 agents carried out terrorist attacks against Britain for the IRA as part of their cover....
If these means our world is only going to be 'softly' shizo then it's already an improvement...
Vive la difference!
what if "soft power" means non lethal weapons and id cards scans even thought
scans make sure you live up to the ideas and values!
soft power don`t be fooled
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lottie
18-04-2007, 01:06 PM
That's good in my view......
The terrorists and the politicians are just two baps of the same shit sandwich anyway....
my god thats one of the funniest things i've heard in ages!!! *still laughing*!!!!:D :D :D