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	<title><![CDATA[Requiem for the War on Terror]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ira-chernus/requiem-for-the-war-on-te_b_185247.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p><em>Crossposted with <a href="http://www.TomDispatch.com">TomDispatch.com</a></em></p>

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<strong>Goodbye GWOT, Hello OCOs</strong></p>

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This is the way the Global War on Terror (also known, in Bush-era jargon, as GWOT) ends, not with a bang, not with parades and speeches, but with an obscure <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/24/AR2009032402818.html">memo</a>, a few news reports, vague <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/26/AR2009032603667.html">denials</a>, and a seemingly off-handed comment (or was it a carefully calculated declaration?) from <a href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKTRE52T7N920090330">Secretary of State Hillary Clinton</a>: "The administration has stopped using the phrase ["war on terror"] and I think that...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2009-04-09T14:04:00-04:00</date_published>
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