Well, we knew that we needed an enemy. We knew that the adminstration was using 9/11 as a justification for all sorts of power grabs. But, now, it's actually being spoken about in public. We're in another Cold War, with, ironically enough, a title that alludes to the Long March. Yous guys boning up on those foreign language skills? (and apparently all those European ones aren't going to help, because they seem to consider racism a right).

I personally like how "long war," has to be decoded by "defense experts," and that they tell us it means, dahhda dada, "there is no end in sight."

Oooo. And also, this is from the future, Feb. 3:

Washington Post, February 3, 2006
Rumsfeld Offers Strategies for Current War
Pentagon to Release 20-Year Plan Today

The United States is engaged in what could be a generational conflict akin to the Cold War, the kind of struggle that might last decades as allies work to root out terrorists across the globe and battle extremists who want to rule the world, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said yesterday.
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Military leaders and officials in the Bush administration have taken to calling the global war on terrorism the "long war," which defense experts say is a recognition that there is no end in sight.