Mises Daily
Author:
H.A. Scott Trask
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Bush officials have suggested that their “war on terror” will last many decades. Less than a month after 9-11, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld compared it to the “50-years, plus or minus” of Cold War with the Soviet Union . In March 2002, Secretary of State Powell warned that the war “may never be finished, not in our lifetime.” A month later,