"Where evil is mighty and defiant, the obligation to use force – that is war – arises." – Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan, Naval Strategy, 1911. (note: not 9/11. But close if you speed read.)
Ah... but remember that African Continental idiot Kofi Anan keeps reminding us daily, ..."if a single innocent or civilian (or presumably not uniformed) person dies, then it, itself, becomes terrorism."
3 posted on 07/15/2005 9:29:08 AM PDT by Publius6961
(The most abundant things in the universe are ignorance, stupidity and hydrogen)