Jonah, at the end of the day, I think despite all of it flaws, “the war on terror” isn’t such a bad term for what we’re facing. It labels what we’re in as a war; it’s not derivative of other conflicts the way Cold War II would be; and although you can’t wage war on a tactic, what unites our disparate enemies in this war is their embrace of terrorism. It also has the simple advantage of having been grandfathered in by years of usage at this point.