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Phracker In reply to cthulhufhtagn1987 [2018-06-01 14:41:20 +0000 UTC]

Usually it's not though.

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rationalhub In reply to tigerribs [2012-06-20 05:12:40 +0000 UTC]

Thanks all for the good words! Yep, Orwell is awesome.

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VisionSerpent89 In reply to KhanKeal [2015-02-21 10:15:38 +0000 UTC]

If you mean what I think you mean, you're as deluded as any of Orwell's characters.

I suggest you dig a little deeper into the facts and stop listening to the Ministry of Truth.

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Karinosai In reply to Greatkingrat88 [2012-06-20 00:48:32 +0000 UTC]

The Drug War on the southern border that gets very little publicity, for example. We're not fighting any particular individual, but rather a mass of drug cartels trying to peddle drugs to US citizens. The so called "War on Terror" was mostly seen by the ignorant as a war against Bin Laden, when he was really only an HVT in just one of the organizations we're combating.

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Greatkingrat88 In reply to Karinosai [2012-06-20 06:29:27 +0000 UTC]

There is an actual war going on about drugs, with US army forces involved in actual combat?

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Karinosai In reply to Greatkingrat88 [2012-06-20 12:55:24 +0000 UTC]

"War is an organized, armed, and often a prolonged conflict that is carried on between states, nations, or other parties typified by extreme aggression, social disruption, and usually high mortality."
Congress doesn't have to declare war on anyone for it to be war. Our military, specialized police forces, and government law keeping agencies have been on the giving and receiving ends of firearms down there for years now. This is all against a particular enemy faction. I'd say it qualifies as war.

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Greatkingrat88 In reply to Karinosai [2012-06-20 13:01:41 +0000 UTC]

"War" implies a conflict of a very large scale, though.

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Karinosai In reply to Greatkingrat88 [2012-06-20 15:41:16 +0000 UTC]

No, it really doesn't. A word doesn't imply anything, people imply things. When you're talking about war between different alliances between countries, then yes, war is most often on a very large scale.

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Greatkingrat88 In reply to Karinosai [2012-06-20 15:48:26 +0000 UTC]

There is a whole ton of implications to war, including a sense of official recognition between nations. A series of skirmishes is a series of skirmises, not war. Of course, I will make no final statements, since I don't really know a lot about this particular conflict.

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