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# The long and winding struggle against extremist terror
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/19112/
- Published: 2006-03-06T04:03:42.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:34:49.000Z
- Author: openDemocracy Supporters
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:15

Is the war in Iraq a Global War on Terror, or a Long War, or is it just a ‘situation’? Check out this [brilliant piece](http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=65191&ref=opendemocracy.net) on Tomdispatch, in which Tom Engelhardt slices and dices the Pentagonal semantics and asks why no-one can say ‘Iraq War’.