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11th Jun '13 10:16:50 PM GentlemensDame883

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11th Jun '13 1:29:47 PM SoapyTroper

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A cornerstone of US central-government policy from September 11th 2001 'till... well, now, actually. [[PyrrhicVictory Sort of.]] The 'War on Terror' is not a war in the conventional sense, but is the collective name we give to the government of the USA's attempts - with the help of various parties including NATO and the UN - to prevent small groups of private individuals from killing its citizens. The 'war' has brought out the uglier side of the USA given its willingness to use morally dubious means - e.g. torture, indefinite imprisonment, execution of suspects - and actively kill thousands of other countries' citizens to safeguard handfuls of its own. The USA has lost several thousand soldiers in its controversial military interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq, and a few tens of thousands of foreign civilians in the turmoil that resulted, but has successfully forestalled any major loss of life of its own civilians since the 11/9/2001 bombings. Given the nebulous nature of the 'war', it's hard to say when ([[ForeverWar if ever]]) it'll end. But the fact that no-one's tried - or at least ''managed'' - to kill any NATO civilians since the 2005 London Bombings, it looks like the war is already in its endgame.

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A cornerstone of US central-government policy from September 11th 2001 'till... well, now, actually. [[PyrrhicVictory Sort of.]] The 'War on Terror' is not a war in the conventional sense, but is the collective name we give to the government of the USA's attempts - with the help of various parties including NATO and the UN - to prevent small groups of private individuals from killing its citizens. The 'war' has brought out the uglier side of the USA given its willingness to use morally dubious means - e.g. torture, indefinite imprisonment, execution of suspects - and actively kill thousands of other countries' citizens to safeguard handfuls of its own. The USA has lost several thousand soldiers in its controversial military interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq, and a few tens of thousands of foreign civilians in the turmoil that resulted, but has successfully forestalled any major loss of life of its own civilians since the 9/11/2001 bombings. Given the nebulous nature of the 'war', it's hard to say when ([[ForeverWar if ever]]) it'll end. But the fact that no-one's tried - or at least ''managed'' - to kill any NATO civilians since the 2005 London Bombings, it looks like the war is already in its endgame.

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4th Jun '13 3:49:45 PM paranoia222

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3rd Jun '13 7:09:48 PM MAI742