Bush/Rove's "War" Is The Wrong Metaphor

Joan McCarter at Daily Kos has an excellent article about how Karl Rove manipulated the American public by framing the 9/11 response as a "war". It's not a war, and the jihadis are not "holy warriors"; it's a police action, and the jihadis are criminals.

Congratulations, Mr. President. Now bring the troops home.

For all its frightening implications for potential domestic surveillance, the point is that this successful raid should be described as an intelligence and police operation, as a "surgical" special forces operation that relied on good intelligence, careful cooperation, and not brute military force. Despite the valiant efforts and sacrifice of the 100,000 troops we've got in Afghanistan, this operation wasn't a success because of their boots on the ground.