Mobilization is not aggression.… The aggressor is the one who renders inevitable the first shot, in other words the nation who first declares war.
Oh, goodie. Let the bloodbath commence. (Zarek)
Well, I asked him who would start the war first.
And now the momentous day, a day to be forever remembered in the annals of the country, arrived. Early in the morning on the 1st of July the conflict began.
President George Bush declared a National Day of Prayer for Peace. This was after he had carefully arranged and started the war.
Wars do not always begin with an abrupt, cymbal-crash rupture of conditions properly characterized as peace. There can be almost seamlessly incremental transitions.
