semantics

read today:
Iraq is on the verge of civil war, the Taliban are surging back in Afghanistan and the British are up to their ears in home grown Islamic terrorism. What are we doing?

In recent weeks, our administration has abruptly stopped referring to the "war on terror". Instead, they have replaced it with "the global struggle against violent extremism.".("war" to "global struggle" which better justifies what we do in Iraq and are planning to do elsewhere??)

So, their response is to "RE-TOOL THE SLOGAN" since the public has soured on the war in Iraq because trying to pound the terrorists into the dirt has not worked.

Isn't this a war with Islamic religious fundamentalists?? If it is, why not call it that?? Or is the reason we don’t, due to the fact that we have our own religious fundamentalists that support the current party in power?? What do you think??