What to call a war on terror? Not that! Never mind its semantic impossibility (a war on a feeling?), the Bush administration retired it long ago for the far-reaching, but no less inaccurate, "global war on terror."

Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld dangled the "Global Struggle Against Violent Extremism" out there, but GSAVE never caught on as he so hoped it would.

Toward the twilight of Bush's presidency, he tested the "long war," but that hasn't gone far either. So the always-eloquent Obama administration has tried its pen at renaming it [1]. Is it any better?

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