United States Government/Foreign Policy

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[edit] War on terrorism

The US have decelerated to be to fighting a war on terrorism. This raises several problems. A declaration of war can only be made between nations, states, or specific entities. By necessity terrorists or freedom fighters (depending what side of the issue you support, a more general definition would be radical forces), act in an asymmetrical way and have no formal organization or leading entity that can represent and command that force and so a declaration of war has no meaning and thus doesn't serve to define a US policy on terrorism, we can even infer that this state of open, armed and prolonged conflict is not against all the terrorists, as the US will only take action against radical forces that block or create difficulties to its national interests.