A belief to live in harmony with nature
The war on terror is a war fought in the <em>mind. </em>Terrorist ideologies are held in the minds of individuals willing to carry out attacks on any given target with the intent of spreading fear and a message. The war in Vietnam may have been to combat communism, but we left after a certain while. We weren't contentiously attacked by Viet Cong after pulling out of the area, like we are by terrorists. The war on terror is a war that will <em>never </em>end, as the war's main "general" is in the mind, and you cannot wage war on the thoughts of individuals.
1600's and 1700's were the height of Absolutism; many think of Louis <span>XIV as the first real Absolute Monarch, because of his achievement in gathering most of the nobles class's power and building the chateau of Versailles to distract them. </span>