So it begins -- the "Long War."

You know this isn't going to end anytime soon. The Defense Department's just-published Quadrennial Defense Review Report (.pdf)uses the term "the long war" repeatedly to describe the varied conflicts we are in now. The opening chapter, "Fighting the Long War," has subsections titled "Afghanistan," Iraq" and "The Fight Beyond Afghanistan and Iraq."

And in case you missed it, Bush made this endorsement Tuesday night: "Our own generation is in a long war against a determined enemy -- a war that will be fought by presidents of both parties."

If you had to choose, what would you rather have: a Great War or a Long War?