Calling this an "anarchy" is comparable to calling the pogrom by the Third Reich against Jews, gypsies, cripples, and others an example of anarchy.
Nonsense.
No, there is a distinct and marked difference between the absence of government and the presence of lots of different governments, the reason for war in Rwanda is because there are a number of rival factions all competing to gain power, a true anarchy has no government whatsoever. Rwanda is an example of undecided government, not no government.
"anarchy n. the absence of government or control, resulting in lawlessness. 2. disorder, confusion" -- Oxford American Dictionary
Which part of that would you say didn't apply to Rwanda?
The entire first definition, there is no absense of government in Rwanda, merely a number of different prospective government. Also, the definition of anarchy is flawed in that it suggests that the word refers to the lack of government leading to lawlessness, my definition, and I would imagine the definition of most members of this list, is that anarchy is the absense of government period. Just because the law we refer to doesn`t suit you does not mean it is not a valid system.
In fact, the correlation between anarchy and war is very strong, for obvious reasons. Perhaps that is why most intelligent people don't consider anarchy a desirable state of affairs.
Cite? The correlation between your definition of anarchy and war is obvious, if you define anarchy as "A lack of government leading to lawlessness" you are obviously going to see a correlation between this and lawlessness! I could counter argue that the correlation between government and war is irrefutably stronger but then I would be playing your little game, and I don`t want to get drawn into that. Your comment that most intelligent people consider that anarchy is not a desirable state of affairs does not even deserve comment, democratic arguments for or against anarchy are completely irrelevant and futile. Datacomms Technologies data security Paul Bradley, Paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk Paul@crypto.uk.eu.org, Paul@cryptography.uk.eu.org Http://www.cryptography.home.ml.org/ Email for PGP public key, ID: FC76DA85 "Don`t forget to mount a scratch monkey"