It doesn’t even matter so much if the laws aren't quite Constitutional - both the World War One Sedition Act and Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus were eventually ruled so - with sufficient will it can be arranged so that no final decision will be made until after the war. Truly breathtaking statist cynicism. And what of a "War on Terror" that, like the War on (Some) Drugs, need never -- and, for that matter, can never -- be considered by its proponents to have an "after"? To ever end?