[RightWhale]

There is a precedent for declaring wars against individuals and non-national entities under international law.

That is interesting. I am just thinking that the founding fathers were totally into using specific words with specific meanings, something that we are not so careful about. So when they said "nation" I am wondering what exactly they meant. We confuse country and nation and state so thoroughly that they might as well mean exactly the same thing. The same for republic and democracy, practically interchangeable now.

[MindBender26]

Try using the word "state" in Europe, or even worse, "states," in the sense we use them here. Instant intellectual chaos