argh, cont'd

IHT: Putin's 'war on terrorism' outmaneuvers the U.S.
"It was a fateful mistake for Bush to have declared his war a "war against terrorism" after Sept. 11, 2001. That made it a war that can't be won. At the same time, it aligned the United States with governments around the world engaged in suppressing nationalist, regional, religious or ethnic separatism, too often by methods of social and political injustice."