11-27-2006, 12:06 PM | #1 |
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The effectiveness of a "War" on terror
Erin Go Braugh
So, with more being killed in Iraq than ever before, the Arab world up in arms about American involvement in the conflict, with world and national (American) opinion being massively against the direction and planning of the "war", what is to happen next? Can the Americans invade anyone who has mere sympathy towards the terrorist aims and not the terrorists themselves (note that they are actually different things)? Can a "war" on terror even be fought, let alone won? I heard a quote recently from a British academic: "a war on terror is like a war on toasters." It suggests that you cannot "declare war" on something incorporeal, like terror. War was not declared on the Holocaust, it was declared on the Germans. Shouldn't we go after Phillips for its rampant toaster manufacture? Shall we? Fenir/Finn P.S. God it's good to be back
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