Um, just to clear up a point. Bush used "War" because it greatly affects how insurance companies and congress can treat the American people. I still ask, how do you have a War on Terrorism? It will never, ever end.
-Gary > -----Original Message----- > From: C. Hatton Humphrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 10:50 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: We bombed ourselves again :-( > > > > I was referring the untouched part to actual wars and not acts of > > terrorism. > > O.City was an act of terrorism but not an act of war? as in say > the war in > > Europe/Pacific. > > Okay, war as defined by an actual congressionally declared act of > war... we > have had no battles on national soil... including 9/11 > > However, this "War on Terror" is being referred to as a war. Using that > definition of war, OKC and the previous WTC bombings and 9/11 happened and > count in my eyes. > > > The reason we as a civilised world have no real cusualties as we > > are firing and forgetting etc.! > > Oh, being civilized and having wars with casualties are mutually exclusive > concepts. A civilized country once took over most of Europe and is now > remembered as a great (or evil) empire... that would be the Romans. For > their time, they were extremely civilized. The Egyptians too waged war on > other countries, took over lands and enslaved whole peoples, and > they were a > civilized nation for their time. > > The difference is that then they used swords and shields and today we use > GPS guided bombs. We have real-time reporting inches from the > battlefields, > they had to wait for runners, travelers, poets or conquerors to > return with > news of their battles. > > We just have better toys. > > Hatton > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-community@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
