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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jttmab who wrote (10351)	2/4/2002 7:30:33 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Do you get the feeling that we've been "at war" a lot? Yeah. Not that that is unusual. Because if all the possible (and reasonable) categories of war are considered to be war, then everyone is at war a large part of the time. I remember reading that a historian had done a study on this. His conclusion was that there had been two periods of about 3 years each in the last 6000 years when the planet had actually been at peace- -nobody fighting anyone else. Reasonable? The Cold War by itself doesn't count as a war. There were lots of incidences of violence along the way, though. Many of them (such as Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Soviet invasions of Eastern Europe) would count as wars. Clinton's incursions into Somalia and Yugoslavia would count as periods of war. By a definition like that, I doubt that we've had a President who wasn't a war President.