Today marks the publication of an extraordinary new book on the subject, War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terror, by former Under Secretary of Defense Douglas Feith.
"The idea that you just deal with Osama bin Laden and you're through with the war on terror simply is not a good understanding of the war on terror, " she said.
But to say that there's only one focus on the war on terror doesn't really understand the nature of the war on terror.
We did it in World War II, in the Cold War and again, to a lesser degree, in the early stages of the War on Terror.
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In America, the channel's gung-ho news values, and its backing of the war on terror, has made it the most popular cable news network and the channel of choice at the Pentagon.
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Some southerners now claim that Mr Saleh, and his tribal backers, are not part of the solution in the war on terror, but part of the problem.
She said Kerry did not display the right understanding of the war on terror.
They tried to change the name of the war on terror but pretty much went back to it.
In Washington, the Bush administration was strongly criticized by some Democrats for its handling of the war on terror.
It is not the first time federal officials have ignored fear as an aspect of the war on terror.
There are a lot of people in Washington these days claiming to be on the front lines of the war on terror.
President Arroyo is a staunch supporter of America's war on terror, seeking American help in dealing with armed members of the Philippines' Muslim minority.
But he has since broken with his party and sided with Bush on such issues as tax cuts and his handling of the war against terror.
The British prime minister's office said that the British officials and government sees Bush's speech as a very strong endorsement of the war against terror and the accomplishments so far.
In terms of the European allies, there has long been a difference between Europe and the United States on how best to pursue the "second phase" of the war against terror.
Under Secretary of Defense Douglas Feith's announcement Wednesday that he would return to private life brings to a close four distinguished, but grueling, years at the forefront of the War on Terror.
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Since American homeland-security officials raised their national threat level in December to orange, indicating a high risk of an attack, airlines have been back on the front line of the war on terror.
It is bolstered by the view that we are a country comfortable with the rule of law (with a few war on terror exceptions), an absence of rigid class distinctions and discriminations (at least lately), and an underlying tendency to do the right thing when the right thing needs doing (although, as Churchill remarked, often only after exhausting all other alternatives).
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Britain is just one of several European countries involved in the war on terror that have expressed concern over the use of the death penalty in the United States.
It presented the assassination of Osama bin Laden by Navy SEALs as the denouement of the US war on terror.
But his second term may give him an opportunity to move away from the distorting, "war on terror" preoccupations of Mali and Somalia, and focus on the broader issues - trade in particular - that he raised three years ago in Ghana.
When the Department of Homeland Security was created as part of the "war on terror, " the old Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) was subsumed into the agency, and the repackaged bureaucracy was put back in the loop (the State Department is the access point for visas).
However, Benjamin Wittes, a senior fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution and author of Law and the Long War: The Future of Justice in the Age of Terror, has some reservations.
Not so with Pakistan, a new, if unsteady, ally of America in the war against terror.
Many have criticised America for tolerating brutal regimes that help it in the war on terror, notably that of Kirgizstan's neighbour, Uzbekistan.
Obama's remarks came the day after a much-anticipated speech in which the president spelled out a new phase of America's war on terror.
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.
When the history of the George W. Bush administration is written, one of the most important questions to be addressed will surely be: Why did a President who repeatedly talked about the ideology animating our enemies in this "War on Terror" do so little to wage an effective "War of Ideas" against it?
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