The value of the "war on terror" as a construct for U.S. foreign policy is much in debate these days, with a recent cover article by James Fallows in the Atlantic. George Soros has made the best case that I have seen yet for why the phrase and the underlying concept are leading us deeply astray. See his op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today (which I have reprinted below to get around the pay wall). My colleague John Ikenberry has also deployed some great arguments on this score; I will let him weigh in when he is back from vacation.

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