Do you hate the fact the war in Afghanistan is officially called operation enduring freedom'

[Ichingcarpenter]

Poll question: Do you hate the fact the war in Afghanistan is officially called operation enduring freedom'

"Operation Enduring Freedom" (OEF) is the official name used by the U.S. government for the War in Afghanistan, together with three smaller military actions, under the umbrella of the global "War on Terror" (GWOT).


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Enduring_Freedom



I find the official name for that war
hypocritical, embittering, a misnomer

Maybe Operation Enduring War is better after 10 years

[lunatica]

1. Well Duh!

Who gets the enduring freedom part in this war? The Afghanis'? Or our oil companies and arms dealers?

[onehandle]

2. After 8 years of Bush, I feel about the word 'freedom' like homophobes feel about the word 'gay.'

I have an irrational animosity towards it.

[Ichingcarpenter]

3. We need to take away your freedoms in order

to protect your liberties.

Yeah freedom runs so hollow these days

[Scuba]

4. "Enduring MIC Profits"? "Enduring Misery"?

[HysteryDiagnosis]

5. A famous Russian diplomat once told America, "We are going to do something much worse,

we are going to deprive you of an enemy" paraphrased of course. He might not be famous to many, but his statement made him famous in my eyes.

[Ron Green]

6. Everything gets a brand,

from "Ground Zero" to illegal wars to Sarah Palin's media-whore tour.

It's the only way to get enough morons to buy what you're selling.

[Donnachaidh]

7. Truth in Advertising would name it Operation Protect Corporate Profits

:shrug:

[marmar]

8. I hate all the names given to our military misadventures, because usually the opposite is true.

nt

[leeroysphitz]

9. Operation Enduring Deficit. n/t

[kenny blankenship]

10. Only because they should have named it Operation Endless Bullshit

I'm used to our government and military making a mockery of the word freedom. They do "enduring" pretty well, as already witnessed by their long misadventure in Vietnam.

[John_Adams]

11. Giving wars names like this exhibits a video game mentality.

It is truly bizarre.

[rusty fender]

12. I don't care what it is called:

I just hate it.:mad:

[MikeMc]

13. I thought it was Operation Infinite Compassion,

Or Operation Just bCause. Wait, that was Panama...

[rug]

14. Operation Infinite Compassion refers to the humanitarian mission in Libya.

:patriot:

[Ichingcarpenter]

15. Operation Unified Protector-Libya

Operation Unified Protector is an ongoing NATO operation enforcing United Nations Security Council resolutions 1970 and 1973 concerning the 2011 Libyan civil war and adopted on 17 February and 17 March respectively.

[rug]

18. It took 41 years to enforce a Security Council Resolution?

Better late than never.

Maybe there's another reason.

[MikeMc]

19. Op Up?

Our foreign policy acronyms make us sound retarded. I guess if the shoe fits...

Mebbe oil companies making some profits from bloodshed.

[PufPuf23]

16. Now, esp. with OBL gone, Afghanistan is the what excuse will we use war?

The war is part of the long war described in the PNAC 2000 Defining Anerican Defenses road map.

The strategy is to have a zone of influence from the Black Sea across the Caspian Sea to the Indian Ocean that divides Russia, China, Iran, and India and provides pipeline routes to Asia and western Europe out of the Caspian Basin.

[Golden Raisin]

17. Right up there with

Department of Homeland Security. Goebbels would have been proud to have coined either.

[CJvR]

20. I think...

...all those media adapted operation names suck, like you are not going to notice the content if the wraping if shiny enough.