[xm177e2]

Sep. 11 was not an act of war. It was a crime — just as hijacking one jet plane has always been a crime — even though the consequences were horrific. Wars are fought by nation-states, or armies that want to control nation-states, against other states, for control of a defined geographic area.

That's silly, killing on a small scale is a crime, on a large scale, orchestrated killing is a war. Wars can be fought by anyone with an army--in this case, Al Qaida's terrorists qualify as an "army."

[BlueLancer]

"...killing on a small scale is a crime, on a large scale, orchestrated killing is a war."

Wasn't it Stalin who said "The death of one person is a crime; the death of millions of people is a statistic."