War on Terror

This is the worst phrase of the 21^st century. It is completely empty and meaningless. What are we going to do next? Fight a war on snipers! Terror is a tactic that is employed by outlaw gangs, militias and small armies as well as nations and governments everywhere. The U.S. uses it every time we bomb a civilian populous. Oh, we can sleep at night because you see, we make the all important distinction of not "targeting" the civilians, but if you know they are there and you drop your bombs anyway, what's the dif? Janjaweed militias use terror when the massacre, rape, and disembowel civilians. Ugandan rebels use it when they abduct children to use as their conscripts, using despicable acts of violence, including murder, to maintain "discipline". My point is that there is terror going on everyday all across the world, so our so-called war on terror is at best selective at worse a thinly veiled reason to go into the Middle East and steal their oil and keep our country in a perpetual state of war. I believe the latter and I hope that over the next two years politicians begin to realize that they can't keep our country constantly at war, it will be the end of America as we know it.