War on Terror or Overseas Contingency Operation?

Dear Editor,
In your article, Obama Team Drops "War on Terror" Rhetoric, you stated that Obama said the term “War on Terror” is no longer to be used. Is it wrong to call things what they are? Of course we choose to refer to mature topics using euphemisms when talking to young children, but do we need to soften the way we look at a war? Seriously, do we need to call it Overseas Contingency Operation? The definition of contingency is “An event that may occur but that is not likely or intended; a possibility.” So what Obama is saying through this new name on the war is that either the war is a vague possibility and is currently not happening or the war is happening but it was unintentional that the terrorists flew into two NYC buildings on September 11th, and that they didn’t mean to hit the towers. The terrorists just couldn’t find an open runway to safely land the passengers. Now if you are older than maybe four, you could tell that there is something wrong with both of those ideas. I don’t know if I’m the only one that feels that it’s rather insulting that the President tries to use big words and metaphors to twist the meaning of the war, but if I am then our country is in a lot of trouble.