[Treader]

There are two pointy-head nominals I have heard repeatedly in the last week- perpetual war & redeployment. Perpetual war is being used instead of quagmire. Redeployment is now defining surrender/retreat- which was called- a tactical advance to the rear. Cowards need to constantly change their camouflage and concealment. lol...like hiding is going to protect them.

[Windcatcher]

"Perpetual war" could possibly be a sort of ironic code by the Left, but it's 20 years too late for them to try it. George Orwell used that in 1984 to show how the IngSoc Communist regime kept the people in line, basically by mounting an endless war and keeping the people's hatred directed at the enemy rather than the oppressive regime at home (with the collusion of the other two pan-contintental Communist regimes that inhabited the Earth). If that's what they're doing, they're probably being too subtle about it, and there are probably less people today who are familiar with 1984 than 20 years ago (which was required reading when I was in high school). There is also the fact that the book was a warning against Communism, which would make it ironic.