British shed 'war on terror' language

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from the April 18, 2007 edition
British shed 'war on terror' language
The term is considered too simplistic, and perhaps supportive of jihadist goals.

By Mark Rice-Oxley
Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor

LONDON - Britain is rapidly backpedaling on the "war on terror." Not the global effort to subdue jihadists, but the three-word phrase, much used by President Bush, which in the British establishiment now fear is ill-defined, oversimplistic, and excessively martial and Manichaean.

Government ministers were quietly instructed several weeks ago to avoid using the term, but matters were brought into the open Monday when a senior cabinet minister rejected the phrase during a speech in America.

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