WHEN IS A WAR . . . . not a war

When is a war not a war
. . .when it's a police action


When a nation must protect itself from the criminal acts of individuals and small groups. For Example: the war in Iraq was effectively o over when the govt. fell, when the army was disbanded, when the heads of government hid. what has followed has been a police action, not against the army because it no longer exists having no one to lead it or to pay the bills. The remaining violence is undertaken by individuals some of whom are native to Iraq and others who have come in from other countries as insurgents, criminals engaged in criminal acts of violence.

Alqaeda is only one of many groups determined to anaellate the democracies of the world for what ever reason . They are not even united in that. Their sole purpose is to kill and kill again. To create an atmosphere of fear so that democracy can not work as it has. Their aims are destructive.

When Hammas won an election they were somehow caught off guard. It was said that they did not want to win. that they did not want the responsibility of actually running a government. The only thing they knew how to do was to disrupt a government. They have much to learn. The people have overwhelmingly demanded that they do so.

Hammas has been at war with Israel forever it seems, but where is its army? where was there a head of state other than a fat little man in a striped head cloth, himself a terrorist. No, this was not a war and neither is our continuing problem with the terrorists organizations the members of which have made violence a work-a-day job and a way of life. They wouldn't know what to do without it.