The conflict has already surpassed Vietnam to become the longest war in US history.
Mr. Obama conceded that the longest war in U.S. history had fallen short of some hopes.
His 2011 New York Times bestseller, was The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and Al-Qaeda (Simon and Schuster, 2011).
The Longest War: The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict, Dilip Hiro, Paladin Grafton Books, 1990.
In fact, the CBO estimate says the current recession "will probably be the longest and the deepest since World War II" and will probably last well into the second half of 2009.
There is much talk about Britain being in the "longest double-dip recession since the war".
Unsurprisingly, that makes it the longest downturn since World War II at 18 months.
The bear market that began for the Dow in January 2000 is now the third longest since World War II.
The bear market for the Dow that began in January 2000 is now the third longest since World War II.
Already, he is the longest serving post-war chancellor of the exchequer, having wrested this accolade from Nigel Lawson, the Tory finance minister in 1983-89.
And with unemployment at record lows and the economy enjoying its longest post-war expansion, poverty and labour rights are not the hot issues they once were.
The nearest he has come to disaster was through his closeness to Bettino Craxi, the Socialist who was Italy's longest-ruling prime minister since the war, but fell into disgrace in the wake of the Tangentopoli (Bribesville) scandals that swept away the old establishments across the political board after 1992.
At that time, the tycoon had presided over the longest-serving post-war Italian government.
However, Mr Berlusconi - who was elected in 2001 - holds the record for leading the longest-serving post-war cabinet.
The 2001 recession interrupted the longest expansion in post-war history.
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These diplomatic challenges are likely to weigh down one of the most important figures in the administration, Colin Powell, and affect one of the capital's longest-running rivalries (far predating the Iraq war): the struggle between the State Department and the Pentagon.
CSFB, thinks that discretionary spending on fine jewellery and other luxuries will be the first to dry up and take the longest to recover, just as it did after the Gulf war.
The longest expansion in the post-war period was 120 months, from March 1991 to March 2001.
The recession lasted 18 months, which makes it the longest of any recession since World War II.
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Yet this same regime signed a treaty in 2005 that ended fighting with the south, Africa's longest war.
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The longest is probably the Hundred Years War between England and France that was actually a series of wars that ran for 116 years.
In many ways the stories of these women are part of a larger narrative the American public, exhausted by the country's longest-ever war, has nearly stopped hearing: Some women are making great progress -- and taking great risks -- while some others have seen their lives change little and continue to be plagued by violence and deadly abuse.
But that worlds is also the last time the Americans have been on the podium, their longest drought since World War II.
All of these examples lasted longer than the current war on terror and its extension in Iraq, which hopefully will not obtain the distinction of becoming America's longest war.
In 1986, President Reagan signed a comprehensive tax reform plan that closed loopholes, lowered rates, simplified the code, and sustained what was then the longest economic expansion in peacetime since World War II.
The longest U.S. recessions since World War II were the 1973-74 and 1982-83 slumps, at 16 months each.
"It will be a day of reckoning and I think you are going to see the chancellor forecast the longest recession that Britain has had since World War II, " he said.
Obama clearly hopes to leave office in 2016 as the commander in chief who finally ended America's longest war.
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