You don't change the rules when you're winning.

I have trouble reporting this with a straight face, but it's true. The former "Global War On Terrorism" is being renamed the "Global Struggle Against Violent Extremism." Ostensibly because GSAVE sounds better than GWOT. If you can't win the war, then just don't call it a war anymore. Ignore the fact that it was stupid to say "War on Terrorism" in the first place. Just as stupid as saying "War on Poverty" or "War on Drugs." Americans want everything in black and white, winners and losers, put the points up on the scoreboard when the game is over. But sometimes politics don't work that way.

Let me provide another example. For two years, my fantasy football team set the mark for lack of acheivement, even being the first in that keeper league's history to go 0-13, winless for an entire season. (The final stretch was 0-18.) After two years of this futlity, I declared that, "The Thunderbolts will never have a record like this again. I'm changing the name of the team to The Ducks." And lo, the problem was solved. Little did I know that such clever strategies would be used by the government of the United States. With a straight face.