[July 4th]

Note that he referred to the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts as "battles" not "wars." In other words, the Iraq battle and the Afghanistan battle are just part of the larger war. Hopefully the North Korea and Syria battle are up next...

[LS]

Yes, this was deliberate and reflects something that Victor Hanson said in one of his columns earlier in the year: that when we look back, 50 years from now, we will see that the Gulf War, Afghanistan, and Iraq were all "battles" in a longer war against Muslim terrorism.