2006-09-26 12:37:19 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
We don't have a war! There is NO SUCH THING as a war on terror! What BS!! If there really were, how are you going to know when it is over! Like Hack said:
"And what the hell is terrorism, anyway? It's not a thing; it's not a place; it's not a person. It is a political and military strategy, that's all. Having a 'War On Terrorism' is as ridiculous as having a 'War on Flanking Maneuvers'. You'll end terrorism when there's no longer anything for anybody to get pissed off about."
2006-09-26 12:41:57 · answer #1 · answered by cantcu 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋
What people CALL things varies greatly.
I think you're right that some struggle MUST occur for a war to be taking place, but I don't think the struggle must necessarily always occur on the crass physical level with guns and killing.
Think of the many nations and peoples who are engaged in a constant struggle with all their energy for years and years but yet do not physically fight. I'm sure you can think of many ways these conflicts surface: through subterfuge and stealth, in economic conflicts, as a social war of ideas, and so on.
Take the U.S. struggle with Cuba. Though it's seldom called a 'war', it is an obvious conflict of opposing ideologies. The U.S. spends millions sending propoganda into the country by radio, secretly (and overtly) supporting dissidents in the country, trying to block economic deals, and physically patrolling the border. I'd say that on some levels violence has been boiling just under the surface for some time.
And ultimately that's what any war is about - a struggle of ideas. Even if that idea is simply that one people should serve another people or give something up to another people. Obviously if everyone agreed, there'd be no reason to fight at all... the exchange would just happen. But instead each side clings to its ideas so strongly that they are willing to die rather than give them up. (Which, ironically, suggests that most Americans are neither at war with Cuba nor with terrorists. Just their government, perhaps)
THAT, to me, is what war is. Killing is just a symptom.
2006-09-26 19:57:32 · answer #2 · answered by Doctor Why 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You mean like when the liberals declared a culture war on family values and the American people said to get lost?
2006-09-26 19:42:55 · answer #3 · answered by Colorado 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Yes, if you look up the definition of war it does require two sides.
Like the Axis and the Allies.
Like doctors and disease.
Like UNICEF and hunger.
Like terrorists and the free world.
2006-09-26 19:42:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It could be 3 sides or even more. There could even be betrayal in a same side then chaning their minds etc.
War is much more complex than you think.
2006-09-26 19:39:57 · answer #5 · answered by Technotron 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
So all of these Arabs and such are what figments of our imaginations?
Not necessarily only two sides.People shooting at you and you as a country shooting back constitutes a war.
2006-09-26 20:03:08 · answer #6 · answered by Tommy G. 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
a country can declare war on another,if they dont fight back,i dont know what that is
2006-09-26 19:40:51 · answer #7 · answered by john doe 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I hope not....I waged a war on a wasp nest outside my house. I really don't want them fighting back.
2006-09-26 19:39:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
Yes, absolutely.
2006-09-26 19:39:38 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes.
2006-09-26 19:38:40 · answer #10 · answered by MEL T 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋