I would suggest creating a new topic; otherwise it will look like revisionism to relabel all of the older posts without the input of the people who made those posts.

That's a reasonable argument. At least a majority of the people should agree. This is re-branding a war after all.

A quick database query shows that there are 17 users who have posts under the "War on Terrorism" topic, and a large number of posts:

199 | decius
115 | nw
109 | jlm
109 | rattle
61 | elonka
53 | mairsil
36 | k
21 | rekna
19 | terratogen
18 | cyantist
15 | skullaria
5 | abaddon
5 | timball
4 | swater
4 | lclough23
2 | cogg
2 | seanhan

I don't have a problem with creating a new topic. But I am interested in feedback and general opinion about re-branding the "War on Terrorism" to "The Long War".

RE: CNN.com - Bin Laden approves of 'Long War' re-branding