Winning the war on terror

Josh Marshall posts the obvious. However, it seems to me that the success the Incompetent Oaf of Office is crowing about is simply being misrepresented. It's a success for the Bushists all right. They've created a war on terror - a perpetual money-making war - where none existed before.

And some people (Josh Marshall here) are starting to catch on:

I’ve been listening closely to the way these [RNC] speakers talk about war – its immanence and ever-presence, often in ways that don’t jump out at you. In his speech on Monday Sen. George Allen --- current head of the Republicans’ Senate campaign committee --- called this election “the most important since 1980” and then went on to describe this one and that one both as “elections decided in the midst of war.”

The ‘war’ he was talking about for 1980, of course, was the Cold War. But the tenor of the comparison to me had an ominous feel, a retrospective redefinition of the past aimed at making war seem like a permanent, ever-present condition.