When war is not a war.
Kinetic movements causes bomb to fall
over Libya. Hence we are not at war with
that country, because Kaddafi’s army is
is not shooting at us.
War is only war when we get hurt or killed.
We have been able to banish war from
our vocabulary...
Send forth unmanned helicopters and
drones, we are only engaged in a kinetic
operation to subdue the savages.
There is no war between the good guys
In Benghazi and Gaddafi’s people in Tripoli
It is a skirmish
And NATO operation in Libya is purely an exercise
in Kinematic forward movement.
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