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**PharmaDrMan** · 03-08-2009, 04:45 PM

You completely missed my point. I said that the military and the citizens of the USA have acted like we were in a war in all these conflicts mentioned, but the fact remains our Congress never officially declared a war. Do you think that is significant?

Here we are still calling all these conflicts "wars" when the fact is they were not. Why do you think that is? I personally have no idea, and that is why I am asking.

Well, I don't consider a formal declaration of war to be significant for defining the term "war". History is full of "conflicts" which were begun without a formal declaration of war, yet had a much bigger impact, lasted longer and killed more than many of the declared wars.

To me, conflict means that it's not about nations or peoples as a whole but about a region, a treaty or a resource.

War on the other hand means to me that the well-being of a nation / people as a whole is at stake.

To give specific examples, I consider the thing between India and Pakistan to be a conflict because it's about Kashmere, and the thing between Palestine and Israel as a war, because the existance of both of the parties is threatened.

03-08-2009, 04:45 PM	#17
PharmaDrMan Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 513 Senior Member	You completely missed my point. I said that the military and the citizens of the USA have acted like we were in a war in all these conflicts mentioned, but the fact remains our Congress never officially declared a war. Do you think that is significant? Here we are still calling all these conflicts "wars" when the fact is they were not. Why do you think that is? I personally have no idea, and that is why I am asking. Well, I don't consider a formal declaration of war to be significant for defining the term "war". History is full of "conflicts" which were begun without a formal declaration of war, yet had a much bigger impact, lasted longer and killed more than many of the declared wars. To me, conflict means that it's not about nations or peoples as a whole but about a region, a treaty or a resource. War on the other hand means to me that the well-being of a nation / people as a whole is at stake. To give specific examples, I consider the thing between India and Pakistan to be a conflict because it's about Kashmere, and the thing between Palestine and Israel as a war, because the existance of both of the parties is threatened.
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