As the "war against Islamic radicalism" — President Bush's new designation for what used to be the war on terrorism — enters its fourth year, it is unmistakably clear that, as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld put it, the contest is "a long, hard slog." The twin blitzkriegs in Afghanistan and Iraq have proven to be mere precursors to counterinsurgency campaigns where victory is measured by tenacity, not "rapid, decisive operations."

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