H RES 861: the United States will (never) prevail in the Global War on Terror

[tongodeon]

Last week the US Congress voted to Declare that the United States will prevail in the Global War on Terror, the struggle to protect freedom from the terrorist adversary.

Unfortunately the bill doesn't define "prevail". At what point can it be said that we've prevailed against Terror? The 2006 QDR defines the "four priorities [of] the focus of

Comments

[dataghost13]

I love ya Tommorow, you're always a day away!!

but ....

[drieuxster]

Well they could have come out from behind the rhetoric and said we were going to fight the Iranian Flying Saucers in a more open way than they did, but if they did that, then the iranian flying saucers would know that we are going to fight them....

you see, it is all a part of the National Security Initiative...

[haloumi]

I have long been railing against what I refer to as 'assertion-based cultures

[haloumi]

Of course, what I neglected to add is that, in the final version, if Peter does not apologise then he cannot have made a mistake. This also applies to strengthen the perceived innocence of people who don't apologise when somebody else does who is already enmeshed in the situation.

as Kibo once put it

[ex_askesis860]

"Look, we've declared war on the abstract concept of evil. What's so hard to understand about that? I wrote in words and everything!"

[mmcirvin]

God damn, what a bunch of maroons. I think I'm going to declare that I win all games of Scrabble from now until forever.

[mmcirvin]

...my dude voted Nay on this piece of idiocy.