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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: X Y Zebra who wrote (26691)	9/12/2001 1:17:43 PM
From: bela_ghoulashi	Respond to of 82486

All very well put.

To: X Y Zebra who wrote (26691)	9/12/2001 1:20:53 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

The enemy is the terrorist network. It is war it is not piracy. OK. We're at war with a terrorist network. The reason I brought up the notion of piracy was because I was having trouble getting my head around being at war with anything other than a country. I know that pirates are in it for booty, not politics, but there's a similarity between pirates and terrorists in that they are networks of outlaws that make camps in countries that may support them or at least suffer them to be there. I thought the piracy model might inform the discussion of how we go about a war with terrorists. I heard something on TV yesterday that the US had declared war on pirates before, but I don't have a history background and thought someone else on the thread might have some insights about how we had previously conquered piracy. Karen