1984's never ending war

Pentagon promotes 'long war' strategy as violence threatens withdrawal

The Pentagon is aggressively promoting a new strategy for the "long war" against terrorism in which combat units will play second fiddle to diplomats, aid workers and civil servants.

When US-led forces swept through Iraq three years ago confidence in the armed forces' ability was sky high and the expectation was that they would establish a bridgehead in the region for the foreseeable future.

Now, however, commanders can barely hide their desire to pull every last soldier out of Iraq, away from the bloody counter-insurgency, and focus on a very different strategy to win the "long war" - as the "war on terror" has been renamed.

Slogans of Big Brother from George Orwell's novel 1984
* WAR IS PEACE (fight the "long war" on terrorism to bring safety to all)
* FREEDOM IS SLAVERY (Bush tells us what to do and think, all other thought aids the terrorists)
* IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH (control of the media keeps the type of information you see here out of the media)