We're not at war. Congress hasn't declared war, and if you speak of Iraq, Bush declared victory years ago. Wars require that you have a realistic goal and, when you achieve it, you declare victory and go home. If we ARE in a war, where is the declaration from Congress, who are we declaring war against, and what are the attainable goals we need to achieve for it to end? Eradicating every last person who desires to harm the U.S. from the face of the planet is not an achievable goal, by the way.

Words are powerful things. Just because politicians use the word 'war' frivolously (war on terrorism, war on drugs) does not mean that we are actually at war. They use that word purposefully sometimes too, in an effort to make you believe that it is true. Wars are fought against human enemies you can point to, or at least name, not ideologies, and not chemicals.