the Pentagon has renamed "global war on terror" to "the Long War",

[ensho]

who knew?


http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/KC26Ag01.html


Liquid war: Welcome to Pipelineistan



What happens on the immense battlefield for the control of Eurasia will provide the ultimate plot line in the tumultuous rush towards a new, polycentric world order, also known as the New Great Game.

Our good ol' friend the nonsensical "global war on terror", which the Pentagon has slyly rebranded "the Long War", sports a far more important, if half-hidden, twin - a global energy war. I like to think of it as the Liquid War, because its bloodstream is the pipelines that crisscross the potential imperial battlefields of the planet. Put another way, if its crucial embattled frontier these days is the Caspian Basin, the whole of Eurasia is its chessboard. Think of it, geographically, as Pipelineistan.
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all you ever wanted to know about pipelines

[MorningGlow]

1. Oh yeah. That's much better.

Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside knowing that they're planning on making sure it goes on forever.
:sarcasm:

[Lorien]

3. I guess "The targeted war on oil producing Nations" didn't have the right

ring to it.

[MorningGlow]

6. And another thing

"The Long War" sounds remarkably like "the long con". Coincidence?!?!?
:rofl:

[chill_wind]

2. I thought Maddow said last night WH staffers had done away with that one

and now it's "OCO"- "Overseas Contingency Operations".

[CrispyQ]

10. "A rose by any other name..."

:eyes:

[chill_wind]

15. Somehow, I don't think it's going to catch on.

[ixion]

4. more appropriate would be The Endless 'war'

'war' with a small 'w' and in quotes, because it's not really a 'war' at all.

[Emit]

5. I think that is incorrect reporting

I heard on the news they changed both WOT and the Long War to Overseas Contingency Operations

[tekisui]

7. It should be "The Long War Profiteering".

Or "The Long Adventurism". Or "The Long End to Imperialism".

[Sanity Claws]

8. I heard Cheney use that term years ago.

[Sin]

9. I guess they named it that.

Because the hundred year war was all ready taken
Don't want to infringe on any copyrights and what not, I think the thousand year war is still up for grabs.

[ShortnFiery]

11. That requires over a half TRILLION (515 Billion) each and every damn year to fight MINUS

Iraq and Afghanistan Occupations.

DAMN, that ole Pentagon's got a real sweet deal going on, aye?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

12. The Greeks, The Brits, The Russians all had their "long war" in the Graveyard of Empires.

Now it's our turn.

[spanone]

13. i'm sold

a shitstorm by any other name.....

[NoPasaran]

14. Hundred Years War was already taken