Daniel Pipes raises a great point. When we talk about war with Iraq we talk with specifics and confidence, about who we’re after, why we’re after, how we’ll do it, why we’ll do it etc. When we talk about the war on terrorism, it’s a muddle — because we are (i.e. Bush & Co) afraid or unwilling to admit that we’re not at war with an abstraction so much as a specific group of terrorist who subscribe to radical militant Islam.