"What the Government is trying to do" - that's the kind of question thta has too many answers, some of them, very cynical. "What needs to be done?" is a better question. "Getting rid of terrorism and the causes of terrorism" is as good a way as any of putting it. Calling it a "war" is just a confusing metaphor, as it is with "poverty" or "crime" or "drugs or "sin".

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