We do tend to get things bass-ackwards. The Korean War was a war. But the gummint insisted on calling it a "police action." The terrorist attack of 9/11 was a criminal act, and should have been responded to with an actual police action (track down the individuals responsible and bring them to justice), but the gummint insisted on declaring "War on Terrorism" and then bombed the crap out of a little country that had already had the crap bombed out of it.

And we wonder where terrorist come from.

Don Firth