Naming the phases of the Afghan war

While Tom Ricks is away from
his blog, he has selected a few of his favorite posts to re-run. We will be
posting a few every day until he returns. This originally ran on June 6, 2011.

The
Ink Spots has a good proposal for better names for phases of the Afghan war
than "Consolidation II" and so on:

Bombing the Piss out of the
Taliban - Sept. 11, 2001 to Nov. 30, 2001
Escape from Tora Bora - Dec.
1, 2001 to Dec. 31, 2001
General Indifference - Jan.
1, 2002 to March 18, 2003
Economy of Force - March 19,
2003 to Nov. 30, 2009
The Good War - Dec. 1,
2009 to June 21, 2011
The Expensive, Disappearing
War - June 22, 2011 through a date to be determined