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Old October 5th, 2008, 11:25 PM   #21
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How about the God vs. Satan war?
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Old October 6th, 2008, 03:30 PM   #22

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How about the God vs. Satan war?
I read about that in Milton's Paradise Lost. That was a fine piece of narrative poetry. With respect, though, I don't believe there's any evidence of its historicity.
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Old October 6th, 2008, 11:42 PM   #23
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I read about that in Milton's Paradise Lost. That was a fine piece of narrative poetry. With respect, though, I don't believe there's any evidence of its historicity.
No but Toltec asked about a black-&-white war and that can happen only in fiction. :-)
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I have to offer in the war on terror. One side, A-Queda, wants to destroy the western world in an Islamic Jihad, usually by killing innocents, while the other, the Coalition, wants to prevent more innocent people being killed
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I have to offer in the war on terror. One side, A-Queda, wants to destroy the western world in an Islamic Jihad, usually by killing innocents, while the other, the Coalition, wants to prevent more innocent people being killed

... or is provoking a desperate region and then hyping the threat to justify the imposition of new police states.

Not black and white - still a matter of perspective. Any war is going to look black and white if you firmly install yourself in a particular perspective.
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Old October 26th, 2008, 03:44 AM   #26

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I say the Napoleonic Wars. Clearly the French were spending way too much time and energy attempting to build an empire when they should have been working to ensure the world supply of cheese and fine wines. Thank goodness the British, Russians, Prussians, Austrians, Spanish and Swedes took care of that for us.
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Albigensian_Crusade Albigensian_Crusade

The above war, might well have more "black and white" than others?

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The Mexicans during the Mexican-American War <1846-48>
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