TMV’s former news outlet The Christian Science Monitor (he was its Special Correspondent in Madrid, Spain from 1975-1978, reporting on the immediate post-Franco era, Spain’s move to democracy and thbe Basque region)has a great roundup on the Bush administration’s attempt to rename the “global war on terror.”
It begins:”What’s in a name? Would the “war on terrorism” with a new brand be just as effective?”
It then gives you a comphensive but compact cross section of news and blog comment on this issue.
FOOTNOTE: It quotes one blogger who we read every day. Every day we thank God that he is alive.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.