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**desmond001** · 12-17-2008, 12:44 PM

I know what you are saying, and I agree that we will never defeat "injustice" as you may call it. But...we have to be careful when grouping terrorism in with the rest. The reason being that terrorism is like facism; the word means absolutely nothing. While Sarah's definition of terrorism in her short essay is one small section of the USG's definition, in reality there is no real definition of terrorism. The UN's definition is 12 pages long, for example. This is because nobody can agree on what actually constitutes terrorism. If you go with the three sentence definition, then every government in the world is a terrorist organization. Generally, historically speaking, both sides in most conflicts call the enemy three things: facists, terrorists, and murderers. Who wins the conflict decides which one the history book records as the good guys.

That's what I mean when I say we can never defeat "terrorism."

Well i agree with you in priciple but sometimes I think we complicate the evident - terroism is simply the inflicting of terror. What ever spectrum that covers - I am sure the Nazi's were terrified when they saw the US headed their way - were they terroist? Well certainly not to the Jews that were locked up in the camps. They were the heros so that validates your point so there has to be more to the definition. I think maybe the catagory itself deserves its own word and definition as not to create confusion to the term. I was talking with BOO BOO today and the movie "Ghost in the darkness" The lions in this movie began hunting men. The interresting point to the movie was the fact that these two male lions were living and hunting together. It went agianst their natural law and instinct. It was more than one Lion deciding to be a man killer but two coming together on a common thought of unatural behavior. This is similar to the way i think terroism is. I keep going back to the original thought that I had - If we played the tape out and they were successful what would the picture look like for them?

12-17-2008, 12:44 PM	#24
desmond001 Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 584 Senior Member	I know what you are saying, and I agree that we will never defeat "injustice" as you may call it. But...we have to be careful when grouping terrorism in with the rest. The reason being that terrorism is like facism; the word means absolutely nothing. While Sarah's definition of terrorism in her short essay is one small section of the USG's definition, in reality there is no real definition of terrorism. The UN's definition is 12 pages long, for example. This is because nobody can agree on what actually constitutes terrorism. If you go with the three sentence definition, then every government in the world is a terrorist organization. Generally, historically speaking, both sides in most conflicts call the enemy three things: facists, terrorists, and murderers. Who wins the conflict decides which one the history book records as the good guys. That's what I mean when I say we can never defeat "terrorism." Well i agree with you in priciple but sometimes I think we complicate the evident - terroism is simply the inflicting of terror. What ever spectrum that covers - I am sure the Nazi's were terrified when they saw the US headed their way - were they terroist? Well certainly not to the Jews that were locked up in the camps. They were the heros so that validates your point so there has to be more to the definition. I think maybe the catagory itself deserves its own word and definition as not to create confusion to the term. I was talking with BOO BOO today and the movie "Ghost in the darkness" The lions in this movie began hunting men. The interresting point to the movie was the fact that these two male lions were living and hunting together. It went agianst their natural law and instinct. It was more than one Lion deciding to be a man killer but two coming together on a common thought of unatural behavior. This is similar to the way i think terroism is. I keep going back to the original thought that I had - If we played the tape out and they were successful what would the picture look like for them?
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