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Obama administration drops 'war on
terror' from lexicon
WSN Network
THE HAGUE: In
another clearly conspicuous departure from his predecessor’s style
of functioning and administration, the Barack Obama administration
has quietly dropped from its lexicon the phrase 'war on terror.'
The term was coined by former U.S. President George W Bush,
much to the chagrin of the international community, including
various human rights groups, who had objected to the term, finding
it overly broad.
Bush was also widely condemned for using the term to justify
many of his controversial actions including the opening of the
notorious
Guantanamo Bay prison for detainees held without trial at the
US
naval base in Cuba.
Internationally, the phrase was seen by critics as a
“with-us-or-against-us” philosophy, overly dependent on military
force and what many Muslims decried as an attack on Islam.
“I haven't gotten any directive about using it or not using
it. It's just not being used,” U.S. Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton told reporters aboard her aircraft on way to
The Hague to attend
an international conference on
Afghanistan.
“The administration has stopped using the phrase and I think
that speaks for itself," she said.
1 April 2009
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