War Without End?

Today on NPR in a story about "enemy combatants" Senator Lindsey Graham called "the war on terror" a "war without end" and said that he didn't think any president in his lifetime would call the war ended.

THAT IS SOME FIRST CLASS SCARY SHIT

I would have hoped, by definition, a war would have to be something that could end. Have we really, electively, though our own willful action, undertaken something that cannot be finished? I thought the in thing this century was to not enter a conflict without an "exit strategy." Didn't they pound Clinton over and over on "exit strategy?"

The President is going to refuse to sign a military funding bill that sets a date for withdrawal and in the meantime his support on the hill is saying we're into something that will never end.

It's at this point of course that somebody ought to ask one of the people we're fighting if they think this is a war without end. I bet they don't. I bet they think relatively soon we will all be dead. Maybe if we're going to be in this war we're going to have to start thinking like them. We need a goal, you have to be able to visualize what you're going for. I think it's unlikely anyone can define that state.

"War Without End" Geez if someone isn't printing "Lindsey Graham 2008: War Without End" bumper stickers already we don't live in the entrepreneurial democracy I grew up in. How about "Republicans 2008: War Without End" - kinda has a ring to it.

I swear, that one phrase had me so rattled I didn't even have the wherewithal to get pissed over enemy combatants and military commissions. That is one powerful phrase.

NPR : Supreme Court to Hear Guantanamo Case: "Day to Day, December 3, 2007 · The Supreme Court will hear arguments this week in a case about the legal rights of detainees at Guantanamo Bay. Under the 2006 Military Commissions Act, Guantanamo inmates cannot exercise their 'habeas corpus' rights to challenge their detention. Slate.com legal analyst Dahlia Lithwick and Senator Lindsey Graham, who helped create the act, discuss the case."