Re: Many Things

On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 02:28:41AM -0400, Adrian Johnson wrote:

> Would the bombing of Serbia and Kosovo be considered a war?  It wasn't
on
> the scale of the Gulf conflict, but I would think so...  NATO decided
to
> beat on the Serbs to get them to do what NATO wanted.  Pretty warish.
> Canadian F18's were active again there, with live ordnance...

I think warfare should reasonably need to include bullets going BOTH
ways...
 
> That's two.  Afghanistan is 3.  The fight there wasn't just against
the
> terrorists, it was also against the Taliban who were (arguably) the
> government in control of the country.  Ok, so we didn't mail them a
> declaration of war and make it "official", but saying the fighting in
> Afghanistan isn't a "war" is like saying the "conflict" in Vietnam was
a
> "police action".

> It might not be like WWII, but it certainly isn't like
> "the war on drugs".  Canadian infantry don't get bombed in the war on
drugs...

Give the Americans time..