I believe that this is a different war than America has ever fought in the past. It is a non-conventional war. It means that you've got to use every tool you've got available to you.
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The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war - diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military power - and we are developing new tools as we go along.
War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
What makes war interesting for Americans is that we don't fight war on our soil, we don't have direct experience of it, so there's an openness about the meanings we give to it.
This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.
War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence.
War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.
It's not just the war itself. It's what you do after the war and what structure you put in place and how you make that structure work.
Going to war is a rare experience in American culture, so it's easy for simple notions to gain a lot of weight. The reality is always more complex.
By fighting a limited, defensive war, America permitted the enemy to endlessly re-supply their field armies.
The thing is that war is the opposite of negotiation. It's when you cannot negotiate, when you cannot talk, when you cannot reach agreements that then you have war.
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