Thespus

The thing is that killing a terrorist doesn't kill the idea. If anything, it strengthens it and martyrs the deceased. There's always five more terrorists waiting to be created after you kill the first one. So no. Terrorism isn't a tangible thing because the people are dying for an idea. And an idea takes a bit more subtlety than an automatic weapon and a grenade to destroy. And besides. A war on terror doesn't make any sense even semantically.

Unfortunately, we declare war on ideas rather than actual things or countries. And it ranges from the war on obesity to the war on drugs to the war on terror. None of these things are capable of losing because they're not tangible. America created a trend a long time ago of battling ideologies rather than combatants. So really, it's all a matter of semantics. Most people know that there's no real way to declare war or defeat an idea. It's all a matter of