Is Rhetoric About Terrorism The Problem?

Oxblog’s Patrick Porter writes:

After 9/11, Bush should not have called America’s campaign against terrorism a war. This is the view of a range of some powerful minds, from historians John Mueller and Michael Howard to ethicist Michael Walzer, from pundit James Fallows to several of my colleagues.

So its probably a hard task to disagree. However. I would respectfully argue that for all the problems that come with the term, it is a war.

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