“War zone” doesn’t simply mean, a place where war is going on.  It means a place where war is legal.  By this I don’t mean, “ought to be legal”, I mean “legal in fact”.  Think: if somebody exploded a bomb inside a building full of people in Okinawa today that would be understood as a horrendous crime, and people would be arrested.  But if Okinawa becomes a war zone,  and a missile lands on a building full of people, someone might say “Oops, sorry”, but no one will be arrested. More

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