| The enemy are fanatics in pursuit of a prophetic caliphate to establish a fundamentalist government. Al Qaeda is the best known among a variety of Islamic fundamentalist terrorist groups. There are many of these, but this group features targeting united statians and their property more than the others, and on 911 they crossed a threshhold by attacking the US domestically.
This is why this war on terrorism isn't so abstract to analogize with those wars on poverty and drugs. The enemy is specific enough, its not about seccesionists, separatists, revolutionaries, freedom-fighters, rebels, guerrillas, insurgents, dissidents or sectarianists. The enemy the US, and its remarkably steadfast fellow Coalitioneers are confronting are international terrorists who have been attacking US and other Coalitioneer citizens and property.
Et semel emissum volat irrevocabile verbum.
Raúl M. Núñez Sheriff |