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by hsn915 1590 days ago
The GP comment was highlighting that 作戦 includes the character for "war".

Now, in the case of "crusades", the word has very negative connotation in Arab/Muslims countries. So, when George Bush said the war on terror was a "crusade", the vast majority of political commentators in the Arab world took this literally as religious war between the Christian and Islamic civilizations.