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To: kumar who wrote (193433)	7/27/2006 9:31:32 AM
From: michael97123	Respond to of 281500

What to replace it with? Turns out Vietnam, Lebanon #1, Iraq, Lebanon #2 are valid FP lessons after all. You cant fight guerillas unless you are willing to take enormous casualties. Like US liberating Japanese held islands of even DDAY invasion. Would we have the stomach to take those casualties today? TV and internet more than anything else may have killed off war as a viable option. Problem is that we are fighting evil in some of these wars. How does one stop evil without force?

To: kumar who wrote (193433)	7/27/2006 9:53:40 AM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 281500

Hi kumar rangan; Re: "IMHO, its time to throw out the window, the time honored notion of "war". Times have changed." The world is still capable of war. The problem with using the term to describe the activities against terrorism is that it blinds people to the nature of the activity. Just before the start of WW1, people in Austria probably thought that the various criminal activities taking place in Serbia were "war". They were wrong, but not for long. And the war that they got was not the one they expected. When people are being killed at the rate of a few hundred thousand per day, what is the word that you will use to describe that situation? Or do you think that the weapons of 2006 are less effective at killing than the weapons of 1937? Do you think that the world economies of 2006 cannot afford to spend as much money on weapons as the economies of 1797? In what way have times changed? Remember, people thought that war was obsolete in 1913. -- Carl