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 | | There are precedents for this in history (King Philip's War, Pontiac's War, or even The War of Jenkins' Ear), but the war did not begin with bin Laden and will not end with his death, which may come sooner than anyone had anticipated--including, one hopes, the man himself. |
 | | The enemy in this war is not "terrorism"--a distilled essence of evil, conducted by the real-world equivalents of J. Rowling's Lord Voldemort, Tolkien's Sauron or C. Lewis's White Witch--but militant Islam. |
 | | Yet if after the Afghan campaign ends, the government lapses into a covert war of intelligence-gathering, arrests, and the odd explosion in a terrorist training camp, it will be a sign that it would rather avoid calling things by their true name. |
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