I can't hear you!

I hope that all of those on the right who made fun of British Cabinet member Hillary Benn when he said that the UK government has stopped using the phrase "War on Terra" as it was unhelpful will also take time out of their otherwise busy schedules to take the piss out of the Pentagon now that they have stopped referring to the "War on Terra" as a long war. According to Lt. Col. Matthew McLaughlin, a spokesman for Central Command, the change "is a product of our ongoing effort to use language that describes the conflict for our Western audience while understanding the cultural implications of how that language is construed in the Middle East...The idea that we are going to be involved in a 'Long War', at the current level of operations, is not likely and unhelpful" (emphasis mine).

I wait with bated breath.

Addendum: Also are these generals, by saying the "War on Terra" is not going to be a long war in fact telling the terrorist, evil-doers and Islamofascists that it will in fact be a short one and ergo all they have to do is wait? That strikes me as "aiding and abetting".