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Re: Special Identification for Arab Americans?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 25 Sep 2001 21:01:11 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Marchetti writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > Why isn't this a war? Does a war have to be with a country? bin Laden
> > declared war on *us* explicitly. We had a war with the Barbary Pirates, they
> > weren't a country.
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> I'll take a shot at trying to figure out what LFB meant...
[snippage]
Yeah, you got it, and then a few additional angles that
I wasn't thinking about at that moment, but which apply
very well.
Nicely said! I'll go for that. :D
LFB
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| (...) I'll take a shot at trying to figure out what LFB meant... I think what is being suggested is that the term "war" is cheapened when used in the manner it has been for the last three decades or so. I am referring to phrases like the "war on (...) (23 years ago, 25-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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