I'm sure you have a definition for the word War... feel free to share it.. you've all read media reports so you have plenty of choices to choose from...
2007-09-20 04:53:27 · 11 answers · asked by Hello 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Surely the simplest way to define War is 2 opposing sides WEARING A UNIFORM SO EACH SIDE CAN TELL WHO THEY ARE FIGHTING AGAINST?
Anything else is a conflict.
Simple as
2007-09-21 06:08:57 · update #1
Its a conflict. People use the term war but if you want to be specific only congress can do that and so we are stuck with the Decider invading a sovereign nation.
2007-09-20 05:03:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
One of the few i think.
What amazes me is the Korean Conflict is called a War and the Vietnam conflict is now called a war. None of the above were ever "Wars" but if you visit Washington DC and look at the memorial sites you will see war everywhere. Even the Government doesn't know the truth.
2007-09-20 05:08:34 · answer #2 · answered by ♥ Mel 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
WAR, n. [G., to perplex, embroil, disturb. The primary sense of the root is to strive, struggle, urge, drive, or to turn, to twist.]
1. A contest between nations or states, carried on by force, either for defense, or for revenging insults and redressing wrongs, for the extension of commerce or acquisition of territory, or for obtaining and establishing the superiority and dominion of one over the other. These objects are accomplished by the slaughter or capture of troops, and the capture and destruction of ships, towns and property. Among rude nations, war is often waged and carried on for plunder. As war is the contest of nations or states, it always implies that such contest is authorized by the monarch or the sovereign power of the nation. When war is commenced by attacking a nation in peace, it is called an offensive war, and such attack is aggressive. When war is undertaken to repel invasion or the attacks of an enemy, it is called defensive, and a defensive war is considered as justifiable. Very few of the wars that have desolated nations and deluged the earth with blood, have been justifiable. Happy would it be for mankind, if the prevalence of Christian principles might ultimately extinguish the spirit of war, and if the ambition to be great, might yield to the ambition of being good.
CONFLICT, n. [L., to strike, to flog, to lick.]
1. A striking or dashing against each other, as of two moving bodies in opposition; violent collision of substances; as a conflict of elements, or waves; a conflict of particles in ebulltion.
2. A fighting; combat, as between men, and applicable to individuals or to armies; as, the conflict was long and desperate.
3. Contention; strife; contest.
In our last conflict, four of his five wits went halting off.
4. Struggling with difficulties; a striving to oppose, or overcome.
The good man has a perpetual conflict with his evil propensities
2007-09-20 05:12:55 · answer #3 · answered by debrawashburn 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Definitions are purely human constructs that may or mat not have any bearing on what is being truly described.
Definitions only serve as a framework for understanding, but they do not necessarily imply total understanding or even a correct understanding.
The above notion applies to all endeavors, politics and war, notwithstanding....
2007-09-20 05:10:03 · answer #4 · answered by outcrop 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thought we won the war and now we are in the process of rebuilding and stabilizing a country that was under a brutal dictatorship for 20 years and is now being attacked by its neighbors for fear that freedom and democracy will spread into that region.
2007-09-20 05:08:20 · answer #5 · answered by Wayne G 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
War has not been declared. That would require accountability, foresight, consideration of the consequences and costs and adherence to the constitution. These are things GWB and friends have consistently ignored or tried (successfully) to circumvent.
www.antiwar.com
2007-09-21 07:43:58 · answer #6 · answered by aufderjagd 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is an invasion/occupation. A set up for a prime position in the Middle East.
2007-09-20 05:07:53 · answer #7 · answered by gone 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
It's a civil war!
2007-09-20 05:07:24 · answer #8 · answered by cantcu 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It was a war that was over quickly. It is now more of a police action. Not much difference as far as the violence our military faces...............
2007-09-20 05:03:18 · answer #9 · answered by Brian 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
It's a 'Business Endeavor in Iraq'
An actual 'War on Terror' would be taking place in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.
2007-09-20 05:02:49 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋