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Originally Posted by CagedTroll One man's "terrorist" is another man's "freedom-fighter"... |
Good point. Let's take an example and work through that. (Humor me about this one and then we can look at another that may have more gray area.)
9/11. A lot of folks hijacked airplanes carrying civilians and flew them into buildings occupied by mostly civilians and killed a lot of them.
Can we agree that that is a terrorist act and then agree that the people that commited those acts are terrorists?
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I'd agree that ridding the world of violence would be a wonderful thing... But we financed "terrorism" against the Soviets. We financed "terrorism" in South America. We've pretty much ignored "terrorism" in the U.S., in part because it's never been as organized or as open; still no arrests in the anthrax attacks, though we did get the guy with the cyanide bomb in Texas.
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I imagine there are all kinds of deals we made with our best interest in mind. I can't comment on those because I don't know enough, but I'd be willing to look into them to gain more knowledge. If it's true that we funded terrorist acts, I would be very disgruntled. (I know, watch out for a disgruntled twonky!! Scary!!)
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So who's a terrorist? What is "terrorism"? Can we even agree on that?
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I think it has to be determined on a case by case basis some of the time. Generally I think we could all agree on a basic definition though. I'll start a list:
1. Kills innocent civilians on purpose
Let's all add to it. (Try and keep it a simple definition without any politics. Remember, we're building a list of basic terrorist attributes.)