[secretagent]

"I did and it confirms what I've always believed: you can't fight a "war" against a non-entity, whether it's poverty, crime, terrorism, drugs, whatever."

That was one of the most insightful comments I have ever read on FR.

Dittos the applause, logician2u. I like this part even more:

"OK, you can declare -- through presidential proclamation, since Congress hasn't been involved since 1941 -- war on these things, but you'd be hard-pressed to ever declare victory."

"That's the problem. Once begun, the war continues indefinitely, or until the nation becomes bankrupt as a result."

[logician2u]

Thanks for the compliments, but you should know it didn't require any original thinking on my part. Libertarians and some conservatives have made the same points for years, sometimes with an eloquence that I don't have.

Not that anyone with any influence in politics ever noticed. <sigh>