How is it possible to have a "civil" war?

Answer 1

I don't know, but apparently - as evidenced by Darfur, Sudan - it is OK for 400,000 people to die as long as someone calls the slaughter a "civil war" and not a "genocide."

This is why the U.S. is pissing around in a country that never asked for its help in the first place when it should be in a country preventing 400,000 more people from being killed in a civil war/genocide/whatever the crap ... Whatever you want to call it, it's death, and you can't take death back when it's done.

Answer 2

The idea is that it is a family affair like brother killing brother, but in the case of a Civil War, members of a single nation are called brothers and sisters when viewing the Nation as a whole. So, Civil in the case of Civil War is not a nice thing or a polite war it is on the contrary, a more violent war, a more terrible war and a more savage war.
That is why many say that we have no right to force our Troops to be caught in someone Else's Civil War. Our troops are targets of both sides, or three sides or ten sides because Iraq is just ruptured with people feeling violated in the worst way possible. Former Iraqi citizens living in the area once called Iraq have almost all lost family members. It is a Civil War.
Remember the American Civil War lasted four years and killed over 660,000 thousand Americans.
An amazing number in any war!

Answer 3

If you are sarcastically asking, how is it possible for a war to be civil, then you are wasting your time asking such a "loaded" question.

If you are asking how civil wars occur, you have a lot of research ahead of you as every civil war has it's own distinct triggers.

If you are asking how is it possible for a civil war to occur here in the U.S.A? That I can answer. When the American empire tumbles from the over-stretched and over-expanding neo-conservative movement, then America will TRULY live in fear, in fear of their own neighbors and the invisible enemy which will never come. Food and clean water will become extremely scarce and civilians will start killing each other in the name of Jesus, just to survive and for the survival of their immediate families. Gangs of pirate militias will evolve out of the chaos and will control territories and food stocks. True spiritual darkness will set in and Jesus will be nowhere to be found. This is what the bible calls the Apocalypse. It's scary stuff but all the signs are either already here or coming.

Answer 4

Doin't you love the english language! Some of the definitions of civil are:
1. Of, relating to, or befitting a citizen or citizens: civil duties.
2. Of or relating to citizens and their interrelations with one another or with the state: civil society; the civil branches of government.
3. Of ordinary citizens or ordinary community life as distinguished from the military or the ecclesiastical: civil authorities.
4. Of or in accordance with organized society; civilized.
5. Sufficiently observing or befitting accepted social usages; not rude: a civil reply. See Synonyms at polite.
6. Being in accordance with or denoting legally recognized divisions of time: a civil year.
7. Law Relating to the rights of private individuals and legal proceedings concerning these rights as distinguished from criminal, military, or international regulations or proceedings.

Answer 5

When groups fight and kill each other for control of the country, its a civil war

Answer 6

Civil simply means civilian. Not a military conflict. A conflict between citizens of a country. Or citizen armies. As this is what it becomes.

Answer 7

Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source
civ·il /ˈsɪvəl/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[siv-uhl] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective
1.of, pertaining to, or consisting of citizens: civil life; civil society.
2.of the commonwealth or state: civil affairs.
3.of citizens in their ordinary capacity, or of the ordinary life and affairs of citizens, as distinguished from military and ecclesiastical life and affairs.
4.of the citizen as an individual: civil liberty.
5.befitting a citizen: a civil duty.
6.of, or in a condition of, social order or organized government; civilized: civil peoples.
7.adhering to the norms of polite social intercourse; not deficient in common courtesy: After their disagreement, their relations were civil though not cordial.
8.marked by benevolence: He was a very civil sort, and we liked him immediately.
9.(of divisions of time) legally recognized in the ordinary affairs of life: the civil year.
10.of or pertaining to civil law.

Answer 8

Lol! War is never "civil".

Answer 9

Civil I think is a figure of speech

Answer 10

Wow. The education system in this country needs to be nuked. Seriously.

A "civil" war refers to a war that pits of one side of a society within a country against another. It does not refer to a nice, friendly (a.k.a. "civil") war.

Wow. Sad. (PS, you don;t like my attitude, suck it up and learn something besides snowboarding, text messaging and being ageneral waste case).