At 9:12 AM -0700 11/24/97, Rabid Wombat wrote:
The last justifiable war the American states were involved in was, arguably, the War of 1812. Every war since then has been unjustified.
--Tim May
Chuckle. The "war" of 1812 was nearly as much of an internal political struggle over the form the U.S. gov't was to take as was the "civil war."
That's why I was careful to say, "arguably." It may or may not have been a justifiable war, but at least it involved foreign powers acting on or against actual domestic, contental soil. Something the various later wars did not directly involve. --Tim May The Feds have shown their hand: they want a ban on domestic cryptography ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^2,976,221 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."