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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (16649)	9/14/2001 10:21:50 AM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 59480

Hi Charleymane; No, you were right, one or two of them did declare war on us. But my point was that we regularly fight wars without declaring them. It wasn't that our war was against the pirates, rather than the government. In fact we shelled their harbors and palaces, and did stuff like landed and supported a coup. I wouldn't think that that would fall under the traditional scope of a letter of marque. What it really amounts to is that when a great power fights a minor power, war need not be declared. Also, when two great powers fight, they need not declare it if they keep it sufficiently under control. In that sense, 20th (21st) century history is no different from 18th or 19th. It does get you thinking though. Back in those days a commander would have to be given the responsibility of negotiating the peace settlement. Otherwise there was too much of a delay for communications. -- Carl