{"id":198510,"date":"2007-11-01T23:14:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-02T04:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/01\/jcs-chairman-forbids-war-on-terror\/"},"modified":"2007-11-01T23:14:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-02T04:14:00","slug":"jcs-chairman-forbids-war-on-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/01\/jcs-chairman-forbids-war-on-terror\/","title":{"rendered":"JCS Chairman Forbids &#8220;War on Terror&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/petraeus-is-eddie-haskell.html\">commented earlier about the difference between Naval and Army officers<\/a>.  In the Navy, it is expected that one would have made professional enemies before becoming captain, where in the army, there is more of an Eddie Haskell ethos.<\/p>\n<p>Now that Admiral Michael Mullen is chairman of the Joint chiefs of Staff, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/13128.html\">we are seeing an honesty that was previously lacking<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Seems the incoming chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Adm. Michael Mullen, has banned the use of the phrase \u201c<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">G<\/span>lobal <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">W<\/span>ar <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">o<\/span>n <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">T<\/span>error\u201d (GWOT) and has prohibited using it \u201cin any future correspondence,\u201d according to a Sept. 27 e-mail from a Mullen aide.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Personally, I&#8217;ve been using <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">T<\/span>otal <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">W<\/span>ar <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">A<\/span>gainst <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">T<\/span>errorism for some time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have commented earlier about the difference between Naval and Army officers. In the Navy, it is expected that one would have made professional enemies before becoming captain, where in the army, there is more of an Eddie Haskell ethos. Now that Admiral Michael Mullen is chairman of the Joint chiefs of Staff, we are &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1090,1006,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-military","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198510"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}