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The War on Terror is taking more and more victims. Chasing this phantom is getting dangerously close to an Orwellian Paradise. As Terry Jones said, "How do you
by qwertzlcoatl 13y ago
The War on Terror is taking more and more victims. Chasing this phantom is getting dangerously close to an Orwellian Paradise.
As Terry Jones said, "How do you wage war on an abstract noun, it's like deciding to bomb murder".
- josefresco 13y agoI would argue that terrorism is less abstract than murder. Also, the US "war on terror" is about terror that specifically relates or effects the US making it an even more specific classification.
- betterunix 13y agoIt is not specific enough to end. Typically, wars end in either victory or defeat, but in the "war on terror" there is not even a clear definition of either.
- king_jester 13y agoMurder is far more concrete than the war on terror, because definitions of terrorist or what counts as a threat to national security is extremely nebulous and data about such determinations are hidden from most people, whereas murder is typically defined in laws that are generally accessible to the public and is strictly related to certain kinds of killings of human beings by other human beings.
- pekk 13y agoSo what policy do you want regarding terrorism? If you want everyone to ignore it, then you will have to persuade the rest of the US to ignore it.