The US installed government calls their current war a "new kind of war".
The white house calls it a few insurgents or a group of thugs. One might as well go out on a limb and call it a gaggle of goons or a murder of crows.
It is a civil war. For the US to fight in a civil war of our own making but not our own, is not a good selling point for fresh trooper recruits.

The rebuilding of the South has some bugaboo phrases you will not hear from administration lips:
* an "adopt-a-family" tax credit

* a one-time FEMA help grant for orphaned and homeless children

* a bankruptcy relief provision, provide temporary housing at all available federal government assets (including many closed military bases in the Gulf Coast region)

* the setting of a 50 percent residency target for all contracts

* setting a 40 percent minority vendor target for all reconstruction

* a moratorium on all contracts until civil rights provisions are restored (Davis Bacon minimum wage requirements, minority contract set asides)

* permit the admittance of minority community-based counselors in evacuation facilities nationwide

* Justice Department assistance in individual cases of arrested and detained individuals, ensure evacuees can vote in state and local elections (including February 2006 election)

* ensure home owners have the right of first refusal to reclaim property

* freeze all foreclosures against property in affected area for a minimum of 12 months

* legal protections against predatory lenders

* prohibition of collections and deficiency judgments on real and personal property

* prohibition on negative credit reporting or omission of negative events from credit scores

* voluntary waiver of late fees or interest on loans for a period of at least three months

* establish a diverse commission to monitor the equitable distribution of relief resources by FEMA,
the Red Cross, and Salvation Army

* develop an action plan to secure wetlands in coastal areas of the U.S.

* stop the rollback and waivers of environmental laws

* and develop a comprehensive strategy to address the poverty crisis in America.

Granted I pasted these asterix points from a Jeff Rense website which happens to ranked the #1 misinformation website by the Nush administration State Dept.

It is up to each of us as to whose misinformation we will believe.