I learned about that word “hirabi” once, too late to do anything about it.

Several years later I’m talking to a friend of mine in a room with a nice window in the Pentagon. He says he tried very early on (9/12-ish) to get the upper leadership to use “war on takfirism” in characterizing this thing, and they chose “war on terror” instead.

I think my friend had a better choice. I *know* he’s smarter than me about this stuff. But I’ve learned that once you name something the name doesn’t change until a new person or situation comes along…sort of my exception-that-proves-the-rule corollary to Chap’s “nobody got a NAM for doing the same thing with the same name; that must be why they have to change it” philosophy.

But war against stupid? Is that why I see all these silly people calling *others* stupid?

A short recon of what?ǂ