The war on terror is no more.
At least according to The White House.
Administration officials are increasingly referring to their efforts as 'a global struggle against the enemies of freedom.'
It could be a tacit acknowledgement that their centerpiece of the so-called 'war on terror,' the Iraq aggression, had absolutely nothing to do with fighting international terrorism. It might be as close to an 'oops' as you'll get from the Bush administration.
This linguistic game should be unsurpising in light of efforts by the administration to block moves by several Republican senators to ban torture, which is a form of terrorism.
Of course, American troops don't practice torture, at least according to patriotic correctness. So it begs the question: why the objection to a ban on torture?
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