The How-Many-Years’ War
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Being in the midst of history sometimes mean events are not seen in the “big picture” view that historians often later take, when looking back at the period. Case in point: what will America’s ongoing war eventually be known as? To date, we’ve been at war since October 2001, or a mind-boggling period of 15 years. This war was initially called “The Global War On Terror” by the Bush administration, which lumped in the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq with all the skirmishes in various other North African and Middle East countries. The Obama administration has dropped the term, but they’ve never really replaced it with anything else. But what I wonder this Memorial Day is what it will be called in the future. Right now, it’d be the “Fifteen Years’ War” — but few expect all conflicts will end by the time the next president is sworn in, so eventually that number will likely be higher.