We Must Redefine War

      When the Constitution relegated to Congress the right to declare war it was understood what war and the enemy looked like;  weapons, soldiers, munitions, committing murder and mayhem or about to do so. Today war against our nation  is much more subtle.  It comes in the guise of playing on the weaknesses of our leaders and their sycophants, bending them to serve their own nefarious  purposes,  by conspiracy, bribery and flattery to infiltrate and subvert our seats of power; using  technology, stealth and social psychology to undermine and disrupt our political and electoral system; to physically attack adversaries with frightening poison and microwaves; forming alliances with the world's, and our own, autocratic rulers; assisting a despot in the ethnic cleansing of a million people. The de facto war being waged against us has many locations, fronts and forms, some we see, some we do not; an international full court press. We do not recognize the enemy as such. We do not  see its hostile actions in their totality or acknowledge that war has been declared upon us and the world.  We apparently have no Constitutional  mechanism to define it, recognize it and to defend ourselves by declaring war against an enemy which is not shooting real bullets at us but which is using subtle and less apparent but just as deadly and defeating non-traditional weapons against us.  And we are losing the war.