How can we have a War on Terror?
Wars are conducted between nation states. And according to my dictionary, terror is a noun defined as “an intense, sharp, overmastering fear.” How does a nation state engage in warfare with “an intense, sharp, overmastering fear?”
Does “intense, sharp, overmastering fear” fight back in retaliation? Are there Geneva Conventions on warfare conducted with “intense, sharp, overmastering fear?” Can we take POWs from “an intense, sharp, overmastering fear?”
No. We cannot because terror lives within ourselves. A War on Terror is a war against our deepest, darkest fears. It is a war against ourselves.
Remember that the next time they take away a civil liberty in the name of the War on Terror.