WHAT IS THE WAR?

Here's what the White House says.

Ours will be a broad campaign, fought on many fronts. It's a campaign that will be waged by day and by night, in the light and in the shadow, in battles you will see and battles you won't see. It's a campaign waged by soldiers and sailors, Marines and airmen; and also by FBI agents and law enforcement officials and diplomats and intelligence officers. It's a campaign that is being waged in distant lands, and a campaign being waged by our new Office of Homeland Security.

I enjoyed this, at the very end:

We are not at war with Muslims. We don't have a beef with Muslims. We want to be friends with Muslims and Muslim children.

Maybe this phrase comes across better in Arabic. In English it sounds a little creepy.