And that war is against the kind of terrorism that authorities say a Nigerian man attempted when he allegedly tried to bomb a US airliner bound for Detroit on Christmas Day.
To use a football analogy, we will have linemen and linebackers, but we will have no defensive backs under the Obama scheme and if the Iranians decide to throw the Bombonus, we'll have nothing back there to cover it.
Ironically enough, NPR's ban came to light just after US cruise missile strikes against Osama bin Laden's organization, which had been implicated in suicide bomb attacks onUS embassies in Africa.