The President of the United States, his VP, and his Secretary of Defense, all stated today that there is no civil war in Iraq. The President (?) of Iraq begged to differ.
"If this isn't a civil war, then what is?" he stated.
So what is a civil war?
Better yet, what is it not?
It is not necessarily a war where everybody is either on one side or the other, like the Korean War was. There have been many civil wars where the majority were neutrals trying to dodge bullets.
It is not necessarily limited to two sides. The war in The Congo had at least 17 armies struggling to take control of the country.
Most importantly, it is not tactics. A civil war doesn't have to be about tank battles, or ranks of riflemen. It can be a terrorist war, a shadow war.
I think Iraq is currently experiencing a civil war, no matter what the Bush government decide to call it.
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