The fog of “war”

That’s the title of my essay over in Salon proper, posted tonight (it’s a Premium piece). It looks at how difficult it is to assess the U.S. progress in the “war on terrorism” in the absence of a clear definition of the war itself — who the enemy is/enemies are and what U.S. goals are. It also suggests that Bush has deliberately chosen to be vague, because it lets him retrofit “War on Terrorism” energies onto his pre-existing agenda — most obviously, the campaign against Iraq.