True, what soldiers and generals do in war is rightly judged by very different standards.emeraldrafael said:
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Yes, the term is vague to the point of meaningless. Just about every authority figure will use fear to maintain authority.gellert1984 said:
Eh, everyone uses religion to enforece gender roles, and have been doing so for millenia.gellert1984 said:
Quite a twisted sense of beauty...thaluikhain said:
And in the end, those resources will go to kill them and their pathetic cause. Terrorists which think their cause will benefit from their actions are certainly mistaken; Ultimately, nothing but hatred for what they champion will come of it.
It all depends on your consiosness. The way you percieve your world.
Besides, like another user said, "Souplex", terrorism is truely using intimidation and/or fear for a political agenda. Whether it is a person fighting for the freedom of him family or his freedom to practice his religion, or the media trying to use the sheeple to their advantage by telling them that if they do not cooperate the terrorists would get them.
Just like my mother when I was six, she scared me to death just to make me eat my dinner.
The differance is that it's on a larger scale, and they use it for political agendas.
I read in the book WWZ something very interesting, That in a democracy 'Public Support' is a resource that is most valuable, and it is integral for the operation of a nation.
Besides, like another user said, "Souplex", terrorism is truely using intimidation and/or fear for a political agenda. Whether it is a person fighting for the freedom of him family or his freedom to practice his religion, or the media trying to use the sheeple to their advantage by telling them that if they do not cooperate the terrorists would get them.
Just like my mother when I was six, she scared me to death just to make me eat my dinner.
The differance is that it's on a larger scale, and they use it for political agendas.
I read in the book WWZ something very interesting, That in a democracy 'Public Support' is a resource that is most valuable, and it is integral for the operation of a nation.
Targeting the civilian population could be seen as freedom fighting in the eyes of the terrorist. It depends on perspective.almostgold said:
If their cause involves creating the maximum amount of suffering and destruction they can, having resources directed away from that towards real or imagined terrorist threats is a victory. Though, that's not terrorism per se, that's flailing back at a nation to no real end, but people lump that under terrorism.Imperator_DK said:
Historically, terrorism hasn't always been unsuccessful, it's perfectly possible to scare people into following your lead. Look what happened after George Tiller was murdered, suddenly a massive amount of doctors didn't want to provide abortions anymore.
If I were a Muslim terrorist (I assume those were the terrorists in question) I'd have sand in my ass, I'd be horny as hell (because no sex or masturbation before marriage acquisition of a slave woman) and fed up with the life I live. Naturally I would devote my pointless by western standards life to kill as many infidels as I can, because that way I would believe I can achieve a better state of existence.
To be honest, I feel as bad about terrorists as I feel bad for their victims. In a sense we are all victims of the way societies have developed and their, mostly useless, conflicts.
If not for the extreme poverty in those countries, I doubt any person would be compelled to blow himself up in the name of some guy in the clouds.
To be honest, I feel as bad about terrorists as I feel bad for their victims. In a sense we are all victims of the way societies have developed and their, mostly useless, conflicts.
If not for the extreme poverty in those countries, I doubt any person would be compelled to blow himself up in the name of some guy in the clouds.
Inside all of us there resides a rebel, a non-conformist, a freedom-fighter, a oppression-resisting-no-nonsense-all-is-fair-in-war warrior, a Dunkel Krieger.
If my country ever were to be besieged by an oppressive, hostile force, I would refuse, resist. I would forsake my moral code, I would do what must be done, freedom is never cheap.
If my country ever were to be besieged by an oppressive, hostile force, I would refuse, resist. I would forsake my moral code, I would do what must be done, freedom is never cheap.
True but I expect better from a country that preaches freedom and supposedly seperates the church from the state, yet nearly every politician within that state is a christian, and has never had a non-christian president.thaluikhain said:
