Interesting post with a lot of interesting background. Unfortunately that time line could have been extended backward to 1948 to cover the Likud party bombing of the King David Hotel. Or back further to cover the US invasion of Haiti, or..........

There is no time line to be developed on an open ended concept. There are only mile markers where a concept as broad as the "war on terror" is considered. Sorta like the "war on drugs," or my favorite, the "war on poverty."

When you talk about empty rhetoric bending concepts to suit, you are addressing this administration's "war on terrorism."

Tell my friends in the provo wing of the Irish Republican Army about it, they were attacked yesterday by the Orange Order and the press hasn't gotten around to calling that "terrorism."

Publius