Sentence examples for indefinite war from inspiring English sources

An indefinite war in Iraq "costs us moral authority across the world," Kilcullen said.

We do not declare an indefinite "war on murder", and use the small but ever-present threat of murder to justify, say, the comprehensive monitoring of communications and, thereby, the abolition of private life.

Because the enemy in this indefinite war wears no uniform, courts have rightly insisted on high legal and evidentiary standards — much higher than what the Geneva Conventions require — to justify detention.

Bruce S. Neben Portland, Ore., Oct. 9, 2010 • To the Editor: Jack Goldsmith advocates unlimited detention of terrorists "until the conflict with Al Qaeda ends," while at the same time calling it an "indefinite war".

The White House, as of today, is still clinging to the preposterous notion that the 2001 Authorization of Military Force against al-Qaida – meant for the war in Afghanistan – gives them the authority to wage indefinite war against Isis (a group that did not exist in 2001) in Syria, whether through airstrikes or, now, forces on the ground.

We are currently engaged in an indefinite war with Isis spanning multiple countries which many legal experts across the political spectrum consider illegal – yet the presidential candidates are almost never asked about why congress has not authorized the military action like the constitution requires.

He tried to reverse the erosion that he inherited in Afghanistan, and he had to try, but once that failed he prevented his military from trapping him into an indefinite ground war and outlined a plan for withdrawal (which will be better for America than it will for Afghanistan).

Lumping them in with more potent jihadist groups, on scant evidence of their connections, is a prescription for ascribing indefinite and elastic war powers to the White House.

We have been mustered into the Confederate Army for the indefinite period of the war.

The indefinite quality of the war on terrorism, as President Bush calls it, may make infringements on individual rights more worrying.

The campaign against Iraq, wrote Brent Scowcroft in the op-ed that launched a thousand others, "is certain to divert us for some indefinite period from our war on terrorism".