It's time to stop calling the post 9/11 struggle against terrorism a 'war.'

"Iraq is a (disastrous) war; Afghanistan was a brief one. But the struggle against stateless terrorists is not the same thing. And framing it as a war ... was a conscious decision made by Bush and Karl Rove and others in the first days after 9/11.

A hyper-militarized war without end will do more to weaken our democracy, and foster a new national security state, than seriously address the threats ahead. "