Of course we're at war. Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, et al. are venues for World War V. World War III was Korea + Vietnam + Cold War, starting as WW II ended, and ending in 1997 with the final dissolution of the CIS as rump-state of USSR. World War III falls between World War I and World War II in the number of uniformed U.S. troops. World War IV was Desert Storm. Even if its overt shooting was officially just 100 hours, the size of the coalition, number of troops, amount of materiel qualifies as World War. The USA made a profit, with allies doing so much heavy lifting. Not enough profit, however, beyond Bechtel and Fluor Daniels' rebuilding Kuwait City. Hence World War V was launched, intentionally to last roughly as long as World War III, eviscerate the Constitution of the USA (inclduing cutting Congress out of the war-declaration business), give the US permanent Mid-Eastern bases, thumb noses at the Geneva Convention, and consolidate the American Empire. Or so I've been saying for several years.