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Originally posted by nanofever
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So basically, you are saying that terrorism is horrible and has no purpose. Except that every military, ever, has used it with purpose including the United States. Getting caught in a bind by your own previous statements hurts a lot, I know from experience, next time you might want to think about your statement and its ramifications before advocating a particular policy.
"Terrorists have been created by almost every military organization in existence. Does that mean they are terrorist organizations? No." Either "you are with the terrorist or against the terrorism" and those military organizations seem to be closer to terrorist than not.
"Were the flight schools in Florida terrorist organizations because they enabled the hijackers? No, because their intent was not to kill innocent civilians and spread terror. Their intent was to train pilots" Really, how is this a response to what I said? The School for the Americas seems to train militants in terrorist tactics, not how to fly a bloody sand piper.
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It's statements like these that turn me off to this forum. Your assertions that I haven't thought about my statements and that you've somehow caught me because military's have used terrorism in the past are discourteous and the latter isn't even applicable. The express purpose of military organizations is not to train terrorists. In some cases it happens but it is not their goal, unlike the training camps found in Iraq and Afghanistan. Unless your assertion is that guerilla tactics are the same as terrorist tactics (which I define as the intentional targeting of innocent civilians to forward a political change) then I can't imagine how you can equate the two.