it's an act of war if you live in Syria and bombs land on your head.
It's not an act of war if you're sitting in tampa playing video games delivering surgical strikes on tactical targets for 2 weeks then moving on, taking a vacation, whatever.
Same way someone steps on your toe in the club and you shove him, and he falls into a table of drinks.
ALl you did was shove a rude, intrusive threat. Dude, on the other hand, has a back full of glass and a busted head from the fall lol.
it's an act of military aggression, and it's an act of war if you send a piece of paper along with it, right? lol...