I’m sort of in the middle between Rich and Mark Steyn on this one. I think the war on terror has a lot of shortcomings as a name, as Mark notes below (I voiced my own problems with term five years ago here). On the other hand, I think it’s the label we’re stuck with until some major event creates a political and psychological opportunity to change it.

Still, a reader sent me a suggestion yesterday I actually like a lot (though it won’t catch on either) in how it grasps the nature of the global insurgency: “The Multifada.”