If our missile strikes and bombing attacks on Libyan military targets in their homeland aren't acts of war, then it would be fair to say that the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor also were not acts of war.
The difference between the two attacks is that the U.S. claims it has been acting with a pure heart for noble purposes whereas the similar claims in 1941 were made by the Japanese.
Also, it appears that the U.S. Congress again is accepting the usurpation of its war making responsibility, apparently having outsourced that task to the United Nations.
As a combat veteran, I am astonished and appalled by the casual ease with which our current administration as well as our recent past ones, staffed almost entirely by individuals with no combat and little military experience, send our troops into harms way. Raining death and destruction down onto Libya from thousands of feet in the air and from far offshore may seem simple, akin to shooting fish in a barrel, but in war there always are complications and consequences that are unintended and unanticipated.
Libya certainly is not a military threat to the U.S. so we cannot claim to have attacked it to further our national security, and it is difficult to see how any vital national interest is being served by our having done so. We would be well advised to avoid going out of our way to make more enemies in the world and to keep in mind that engaging in, fostering, and promoting terrorism is an increasingly feasible and effective weapon of those who are militarily weak.
Finally, it now is being said by our military leaders that the leading role in the Libyan adventure soon will be turned over to the French -- our allies who are so very adept, after the fighting is over, at venturing out onto the battlefield to bayonet the wounded.
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