Playing with Words...Sigh

I just read The Weekly Standard's blog article about the new name for what was the "Global War on Terror." Now, it's "The Overseas Contingency Operation." Does anybody know what that means? It sounds like plans for a possible trip to Bermuda.

Of course, our new Secretary of Homeland Security set the stage for this by referring to terrorism as "man caused disasters." That might apply to this season's "Celebrity Apprentice."

And our Treasury Secretary renamed the assets that no bank wants to carry--they are not "toxic" anymore, they are "legacy." Yep, just what you and I want to leave our kids.

Read 1984 by George Orwell, and see if the brazen practice of "doublespeak" there doesn't look familiar.

Of course, it's one thing to rename a war; it's quite another to wage it successfully. The same is true with recognizing evil and ending a recession. We'll see if our government is as clever at overcoming challenges as it is in renaming them.