Seems to me that war on an abstract noun is a bogus concept to begin with.

What'll we do, get Terrorism to admit defeat and occupy it until it's ready for self-government? More likely we'll colonize it and then we'll have access to all its natural resources.

The advantage to a War on Terrorism is that it can't be won, any more than a War on Bad Taste, and you can keep the country in a State of Emergency forever and justify anything you want as necessary for National Defense; the exact reasons, of course, being classified.

Way more clever than a Cold War.

clint