AND FINALLY

Now that Dubya’s a distant memory and clean livin’ paragon of virtue Barack Obama is in the White House – some of the neo-con rhetoric is obviously starting to feel a little stale in the mouth. The War on Terror is out.

A recent leaked memo circulating around the White House explained that the War on Terror has been officially re-branded as the ‘Overseas Contingency Operation.’ Which is great, because from now on whenever an Afghan wedding party or a group of Pakistani shepherds is wiped out by a US Predator drone they didn’t die as incidental casualties in the war on evil but as part of some ‘overseas contingency,’ as if international mass murder was now just some corporate business plan that didn’t quite hit its target.