"Overseas Contingency Operation is Hell"

The Obama administration has retired the phrase "war on terror" and replaced it with "overseas contingency operation." Somewhere, Orwell and Huxley are discussing what it all means. Will Strunk and White plan on channeling a new chapter on vagueness to their publisher? Words may turn out to be the least of our problems. Alas, it is going to be a very long four years.