Just a brief comment...
The "war on drugs" baffles me in the exact same way and for a similar reason that the "war on terror" baffles me.
Sorry, governmental idiots, but just as you can't have a war on a tactic -- terrorism -- and/or the mental state that it attempts to induce -- terror -- you can't have a war on a thing -- drugs.
It makes as much sense to say "war on soup tureens", or "war on shoes". Say something like that, and you sound like a complete ninny.
We will have made some significant progress when anyone who says something as logcally incoherent as "war on drugs" is seen as a complete ninny.
I have every confidence that such a day will come.
Because our politicians and bureaucrats may *be* complete ninnies, but none of them want to be seen as such...
~ Wicked Witch of the Dale
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Grammatical lunacy
I could not have put it more precisely. Thank you for bringing this up as it has been festering in my mind for quite a while.
Yesterday I tripped over as a result of walking into a chair. Do I declare a war on chairs? Or the floor?
Bravo for lampooning the concept in such a way because that is what it is. I would take it a step further and call a spade a spade and rephrase it for the poor 'ninnies' and call it a war on humans, because that is what it really is.
To continue to promote and fund this war is foolish, asinine and downright irresponsible. It would seem to many that as soon as a newly elected politician enters through the doors of parliament, congress etc. they walk into a nether world and create their own reality.
'Ninny' is a great term, although I would be using more colourful language to describe the adherents to such irresponsible legislative behaviour.
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