Terror is a concept; you can’t make war against an idea. We can’t win a war on Terror any more than we can win the War on Drugs, or the War on Poverty.
Bin Laden was a man; you can’t make war against an individual, can you?
When I want to look at related concepts to a word I head over to “The Visual Thesaurus” (http://www.visualthesaurus.com/). It’s a fabulous way to visualize words.
Using “War” as the starting point the Visual Thesaurus gave me three branches.
1) A legal state created by a declaration of war
2) Active struggle between competing entities/waging of armed conflict
3) A series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular ending via a concerted campaign to end something injurious.
So, does this mean that the War of Terror is Number 3?
If so how is the War on Terror any different than al-Qaeda’s actions in trying to bring about the collapse of Arab regimes supported by America
Bin Laden was nothing more than a mass murderer. By killing him all we did we deny legal due process.
Killing in the name of expedience is wrong.
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