Yep. You get it! :-)<br><br>In the books I've read over the years, a real terrorist does not have a political agenda. They derive their satisfaction from creating fear through violence. They are like the spouse abuser or the rapist or the child molester. They have a pathological drive to foster violence on others and often derive sexual-like pleasure from the process.<br>
<br>Bin Ladin is not a terrorist. He is more like a deposed country leader after a coup trying to fight his back to power. He doesn't have and never really had a country of his own. His actions are geared to acquire power from his region by performing violence on a perceived external common threat. Not as if our past leadership has a history of fulfilling it's promises made during war (except to Israel). Once the dirty work is done, so are we. <br>
<br>Ask the Native Americans their opinion of the US governments word of honour.<br><br>Timothy McVeigh was much closer to being a terrorist except he had an axe to grind. The Uni-bomber was a terrorist. He just liked making and sending bombs.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 10:39 PM, <a href="mailto:wolf@wolfhalton.info">wolf@wolfhalton.info</a> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wolf@wolfhalton.info">wolf@wolfhalton.info</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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How does one wield terror, and how does that differ from <br>
objectifying the adversary in the pursuit of ideological ends?<div class="im"><br>
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<pre><a href="mailto:wolf@wolfhalton.info" target="_blank">wolf@wolfhalton.info</a> wrote:
> @Jeff - Can we let go of the "xx-terrorist" terminology? Unless, of
> course you can find a definition that is held by more than three people
> at a time, it is a religious-war term for persons we don't agree with,
> and adds nothing to the conversation. It is the linguistic framing that
> makes the neo-con forever-war concept seem sane to some people.
Pretty straightforward definition I think:
One who uses terror as a means of coercion.
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