successful, made us much safer. how you wrap it and package it, i m less concerned aboutat. the difficulty with the debate is the authoritiesou want for any president, bush, obama or the next one are relatively the sa including using military force. the war on terror as we understood it over the last ten years means a lot of things to a lot of people. some people believe it means gitmo, military commissions and all that other stuff. what we call it is informed. the difference is, if we use effective counterterrorism and talk about it as a counterterrorism effort and war against al qaeda, people will understand what we are doing. we will kill bin laden and use other tools, diplomacy, lel intelligence that help us fight al qaeda. so, in some ways, there s not that much of a difference except what we call it. is that not, though, talkin