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Which does its best to obfuscate the purpose of what we call “the long war.” The fight, the command insists in recent briefings, is an ideological struggle against “Al Qaeda and Associated Movements,” which not only produces a terrible acronym — AQAM — but downplays the counterinsurgency and stability operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Most disturbingly, it’s out of sync with the National Security Strategy, which defines the long war as the effort to transform and liberalize the greater Middle East. Tampa: call the White House.