[SalmoShalazar]

The word “terrorist” is strictly a political designation, one that allows for dehumanizing and condemning one’s enemies. Israel’s pager attack on Lebanon has all of the hallmarks of a terrorist attack, but the west won’t call it as it is because it’s inconvenient. It was inconvenient to acknowledge that Israel is conducting a full on genocide, so not until very recently did major western news orgs start using the dreaded G word.

[abustamam]

A lot of what the US did during Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc, could have been considered terrorism.

Terrorism as a label is a very convenient way to justify committing atrocities, under the name of squashing terrorism.

I remember hearing a radio talk show in which someone said they were against the Iraq war and the response from the pundit was "so you don't want to fight against terrorism?"

When people's actions get reduced to a single label it becomes increasingly easier to hate them.