[bvw]

Or back to when RFK was shot -- or to when the Arab Legion attacked the new state Israel, or to Hebron in 1929. Or back to the "Shores of Tripoli".

Each date is a *possible* start, for at each one -- a signal flare that even when followed up on was not continued to a terminus.

[Gunny P]

reckon the problem is that in every instance, no decisive conclusion was achieved. In part, because few admit to anything beyond "conflict". War is the "W" word.
Germany and Japan were decisively concluded.

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

I think it started in the 7th century with that goof ball Mohamut.