blitzkrieg

War on Terror in Courtoom Grinds to Political Halt, Like WWII 'Sitzkrieg'

Following the German onslaught of Poland in September 1939, and before the Nazi war machine invaded Belgium and Holland in May 1940, World War II experienced what contemporary wags called the "Sitzkrieg" (literally, the "sitting war"). The word was a masterful spoof on Germany's vaunted "Blitzkrieg" ("lightning war") -- which would both precede and succeed it-- and it marked a sixth-month period of notable lack of aggression and fighting between the Allied and Axis powers. Nearly nine years after the Twin Towers fell, America now evidently has entered a lamentable Sitzkrieg phrase of its own ...

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