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War on terror no more

The Obama administration has ditched the Bush administration phrase "war on terror," and Pentagon officials have been using the phrase "overseas contingency operations" instead. Administration officials deny that they have issued any specific direction on the phrase. "The administration has stopped using the phrase, and that speaks for itself, obviously," Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told reporters during her trip in Europe. The softening of language on terrorism appears consistent with Clinton's emphasis on "soft power" emphasizing diplomacy. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano went one step further, refusing to utter the word terrorism in her confirmation testimony to Congress, saying instead "man-caused disasters."

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