Nov 17
Words that should be banned: War on Terror
Cats: banned words|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.
April 17th, 2007 at 8:37 am
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February 8th, 2008 at 7:00 am
Hello
According to me it’s certainly true that war always results in the suffering of the ‘innocents’. War harms on both side.War is always wrong. A ban on war does sound totally idealistic, we should speak up against the indiscriminate use of force. Its really very difficult for anyone to live in terror.so war should be banned but its a universal truth that anything cannot be banned for a longer period of time beacause there are different peoples with different thinking
and different religions with different values.