Is this a war?

Of course it is, or not, Bush says so

I'm a great admirer of Jonathan Schwarz, who writes the blog A Tiny Revolution. He has a new piece on Schrödinger's Cat War published in Mother Jones.

...Why was Gonzales so eager to point out the difference between declaring war outright and authorizing the use of military force? The answers to these questions reveal the Bush administration at its most nakedly, hilariously duplicitous—inventing an entirely new and logic-defying state of being for America, something no one has opposed because no one realized it could exist in the first place.

So, we can be both at war, and not at war at the same time, or we can both authorize and reject torture at the same time. It's the new quantum of existence for America.