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Readers of our July 21 cover story on America's conflicts had mixed reactions. One said, "Fareed Zakaria fails to distinguish between real wars and the War on Terror." But another advised, "Stick to the Pakistani border, where terrorists hide." A third simply noted, "When enemies talk, tensions go down."
Defining War
Fareed Zakaria's July 21 article "America Needs a War President" makes some dangerous comments about what war is, and what it is not. Zakaria fails to make the distinction between the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan--which are "real" wars, where soldiers are deployed and fight for their countries--and the War on Terror, which is not a war in ...