Hi, Carl. I think I understand what you are saying, but but it really isn't sufficient to define this conflict as "no war". After all, it is a war of some sort. Maybe not a WWII type, with unrestrained bombings of cities, even nuclear bombing... things like the burning of Dresden and many other less famous annihilations -- but it's still a war.
I think that we are witnessing a global religious war, consisting of several "local" conflicts. This idea may sound crazy to a modern Western person, but that's how the professional Jihadi's see it, and, in effect, that's what it is. The funny part is that it is occurring during a period in our history when - after centuries of science technology, of separation of State and Church, etc. - most of us are quite incapable of even comprehending what the concept means.
Where does all this lead? Don't know... probably eventually towards escalating trouble... towards becoming more similar to WWII, or worse. But - who knows, maybe not. If all of us don't end up nuking each other to hell, maybe in time things will chill down. |
