Yes, it does. Choice of terms frames the debate. We are now entering the Orwellian age of perpetual war.
Yeah, right. We are engaged in more than an academic debate and literary allusions. The reality is that we have been repeatedly attacked for over a decade by AQ culminating in 9/11. These are objective facts. If you insinuate by your "Orwellian age of perpetual war" that the USG is manipulating and manufacturing this state of war, you are totally wrong. AQ exists, declared war against us, and attacked us.