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by Tuna-Fish
5845 days ago
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> Terrorism is pretty much about murdering people. No. Terrorism is, by definition, about using fear as a weapon to further your goals. Terrorism can be perfectly successful even if nobody dies -- it's all about playing your opponent's need to react against him. That's why even a fake bomb, or pre-announced bomb attacks IRA style are terrorism -- because there has to be a reaction to a bomb threat, at a relatively small cost a terrorist can force the opponent to do huge evacuations and bomb sweeps. Completely ignoring the 9/11 would have been a better reaction that what the USA took -- but as usually with well planned terrorism, completely ignoring the attack would have been politically impossible. > And what is a proper reaction to an organized attempt to kill civilians in your country? A proportioned response against the attackers, instead of some of their various allies or complete third parties. |
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