The fine mind of Henry C.K. Liu looks at the Bush Administration's new Holy War.

Barely a decade after the end of the Cold War between the two superpowers, the world has entered decidedly into an age of Holy War between the sole remaining superpower and minor states deemed by it as rogue.

The US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, billed as part of a "war on terrorism", were essentially the remote unleashing of overwhelming military power on defenseless minor states. One unique characteristic about this new Holy War is that it seems to be open ended, that while major combats have ended, or never even took place, victory remains not at hand in the near future. In fact, the US itself refers to these one-sided military operations as "battles in an on-going war on terrorism". That of course is the nature of religious wars.
Another unique aspect is that while many governments around the world opposed or at least disapproved of US unilateral use of force, none came to the aid of the victim states.

If James Woolsey is correct in referring to the Cold War as World War III and the post-9/11 belligerence of the U.S.'s "War on Terrorism" as WWIV, then the nation has been on a fullscale war-footing since Dec, 7, 1941 -- 62 years. The profits of war were too lucative to allow peace to return, it seems. This was what Eisenhower warned of, certainly.

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