Intro to How to Sell a War

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OhioDem,
I am impressed by your analysis. I think you can expand on your points about the turning points of WWI & WWII and how the War on Terror is still in its beginning phase. How can we ever declare victory in this war?

By DTW 06, at 5:56 PM, March 30, 2006

You can never declare victory in a war against an amophorous concept like "terrorism" because it has been around forever, and until over half of the Earth's 6 Billion can find some modicum of equity, some way to feed their family, an unemployment rate of less than 60 per cent, this problem will be with the world.

Remember that there have been terroiists around in the United States for over 100 years. Remember the "mad bomber" of literature, or the anarchists prior to WWI. More recently the 30 year Northern Ireland strife. Or the last 60 years in the Middle East over Israel and Palestine.

Domestically we have had the Unabomer, the Olympic Bomber, abortion clinic bombers, the Oklahoma City bombing, the SLA, Moveon in Philadelphia. The point is that terrorism will never go away, and to declare war on somehing that will never go away, is a declaration of unending war.

If this madness is not stopped, our grandchildren will be draftees.

By Ohiodem1, at 6:38 PM, March 30, 2006

Awesome posters. Keep up the good work!

By Anonymous, at 10:27 PM, April 24, 2006