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as not to mistake friend from foe? One in which good guys fight the bad guys until one lays down their arms in surrender, and peace treaties are signed thereafter? Of course we could win a conventional war against terrorists in this manner. But, if terrorists fought this type of war then they would be considered soldiers of an army, not terrorists. George Bush's "War On Terror", is as absurd as the Reagan's "War On Drugs", simply because these "wars" cannot be won. Terrorism is a methodology, not an army. The guy who blows up an abortion clinic is a terrorist, as are the college kids who burn down a church. The disgruntled postal worker is a terrorist, as is the kid responsible for shooting 17 fellow high school classmates. Morally speaking, we could write the definition of a terrorist as one who instills terror in another'. With that we could say the rapist is a terrorist, but our dictionaries stray from becoming too profound with the meaning.

John McCain should realize that terrorism is used when a person knows they could never take on a military the size of our own. They make their mark in small bursts, literally. They want to make it known that America is indeed vulnerable, and know they could damage us both in our image and economically, so they manipulate their way in to when they could use our own commercial jets to drop the World Trade Center. They want to make it known that America's warships are not welcome in the heartland of modern-day pirates and power-wielding gangs, so they sink the U.S.S. Cole with tiny boat packed with explosives. Afterwards they run and hide to a place they could hunker down, let the smoke blow over, and regroup; to a place they may even call "home". They've accomplished their mission, and now they have all the time they need to plan their next attack. Since they live in the region, many in somewhat of a nomadic sense, they see themselves as being right where they need to be. Their job is to expel the western invaders and the mostly unwanted culture they insist on spreading. They could go about their daily shopping, and laundry-washing while we run about in desperation to find the one man who placed the IED that exploded from under a pile of trash amongst many piles of trash, until we think the man is long gone. Once the incident has been forgotten, and the American soldier who had his legs blown off is at home learning to propel a wheelchair, that same man could walk into a neighborhood where his real enemy lives, his sectarian

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