{"id":7360,"date":"2006-05-09T11:00:24","date_gmt":"2006-05-09T15:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7360"},"modified":"2006-05-09T11:00:24","modified_gmt":"2006-05-09T15:00:24","slug":"are-we-in-the-midst-of-world-war-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/are-we-in-the-midst-of-world-war-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Are we in the midst of World War III?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Bush administration has toyed around with different names for our war on terror — remember the “[tag]Global War on Terrorism[\/tag]” vs. “[tag]Global Struggle Against Violent Extremism[\/tag]” debate<\/a>? — and last month seemed to be settling on the oddly-worded “[tag]long war[\/tag]<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

National Journal noted this morning, however, that the president seems to have settled on yet another label<\/a> for the conflict. From a discussion with CNBC’s Larry Kudlow on the movie, “[tag]United 93[\/tag]”:<\/p>\n

Bush: “And it’s a — it’s a remembrance of the nature of the world in which we live. And it’s also a remembrance of the heroic action that Americans were — are willing to take in the face of danger. I haven’t seen it yet. I will see it.”<\/p>\n

Kudlow said: “The late Scott Beamer’s dad, David, was on our program. He wrote a great article in the Wall Street Journal, and he said, essentially, that when the passengers retook that plane, he called it the first counterattack for [tag]World War III[\/tag].”<\/p>\n

[tag]Bush[\/tag]: “Yeah.”<\/p>\n

Kudlow: “I didn’t know if you saw. I don’t know if you have a thought on that.”<\/p>\n

Bush: “I believe that. I believe that it was the first counterattack of World War III. It was — it was unbelievably heroic of the — of those folks on the airplane to recognize the danger and — and save lives”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m trying to understand the logic here. Bush seems intent on using the label — he repeated it twice — but does he really<\/i> consider this to literally be the third World War? An open-ended, hard-to-define conflict with no foreseeable conclusion and with ambiguities over who we’re fighting?<\/p>\n

You know the propaganda has gotten a little out of hand when one pines for the days of the GWOT v. GSAVE dispute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Bush administration has toyed around with different names for our war on terror — remember the “[tag]Global War on Terrorism[\/tag]” vs. “[tag]Global Struggle Against Violent Extremism[\/tag]” debate? — and last month seemed to be settling on the oddly-worded “[tag]long war[\/tag].” National Journal noted this morning, however, that the president seems to have settled on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}