If using the word Crusade is considered dicey....

Remember how Dubya briefly spoke of the need for a Crusade in the Middle East following 9-11 before the negative connotations of that word were pointed out? There are other words like that. Over at the increasingly poisonous and hysterical OpinionJournal, they lead off with this:

Will May 12 bring about a Saudi epiphany the way Sept. 11 did for America?

[they repeat the usage in the May 15 and May 16 editions]

Let's go to the dictionary:

1. Epiphany
A Christian feast celebrating the manifestation of the divine nature of Jesus to the Gentiles as represented by the Magi.
January 6, on which this feast is traditionally observed.
2. A revelatory manifestation of a divine being.
3a A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
3b A comprehension or perception of reality by means of a sudden intuitive realization: "I experienced an epiphany, a spiritual flash that would change the way I viewed myself" (Frank Maier).

Even if they say they are relying on 3a or 3b, without the christianity, there is still a sense of an epiphany being positive. And we don't think 9-11 was a positive event, right?