Reply #6: Define your terms. [View All]

[Igel]

If you don't define your terms you can go round and round arguing about it, when the real argument is what the agreed-upon definition should be.

I don't call it a civil war yet; religious, interethnic, and intertribal conflict, sure. On a fairly large scale (I don't want to call it horrendous or very large because I want to leave plenty of semantice space for when things get worse).

It's gotten closer to civil war, but one side lacks organization, a government, and territory clearly under its control. Maybe next month.

I'd also really, really like to see how they judge terrorism risk, what metrics they employ.