More of the typical Orwellian double-speak:

Later, Snow said it was impossible to say if U.S. troops would remain in Iraq for some 50 years, as they have in South Korea. "I don't know," he said. "It is an unanswerable question. But I'm not making that suggestion. ... The war on terror is a long war."

In the same breath, two opposing notions: Snow is not making the suggestion that our troops will remain in Iraq for long, but the war is a long one -- huh? And he makes the insinuation that war is an infinite continuum, an eternal quest. It's lunacy.