A war by any other name would still be totally as sweet.
According to Stephen Colbert, President Obama should end the war in Afghanistan without bringing troops home, simply by saying that it’s no longer a war.
“Obama could end the Afghan war tonight,” Colbert said, “by calling it something else.”
Noting that this was the logic the administration used to avoid calling the Libyan engagement a war, Colbert then proposed a list of alternate names, such as, “heavily armed semester abroad.”
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