‘Infinite Justice’ May Not Stand, Pentagon Says — “The initial

code name for the Pentagon’s response to attacks on the

United States, Operation Infinite

Justice, likely will be changed to avoid offending Muslims,

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Thursday.

The issue arose at a Pentagon briefing when a reporter told

Rumsfeld that several Islamic scholars objected to the name

on the ground that only God, or Allah, can mete out infinite

justice in their view.” Second gaffe against Muslims in a week — cf. Dubya’s calling this a ‘crusade’ — leads to impatient Rumsfeld minimization. As Phil Agre suggests, maybe we should call it ‘Operation Holy War”?