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Originally posted by powerclown
That's ludicrous. How is the category 'Terrorist' hard to quantify?
If you help an old lady across the street, are you a terrorist? If you step on an ant are you a terrorist? If you smoke pot are you a terrorist? If you fart in church are you a terrorist? If you shoplift are you a terrorist? If you become a doctor and devote yourself to healing people, are you a terrorist? If you kill a dog are you a terrorist? If you chop someone's dome off on video for political gain are you a terrorist? If you strap plastic explosives on your body and detonate it in on a crowded bus are you a terrorist? If you fly 2 jumbo jets into skyscrapers and kill 3,000 people are you a terrorist?
In the history of humanity, there has been established decent, civil, moral, legal, intelligent, CONSTRUCTIVE ways to voice your discontent without resorting to mindless violence. These modern-day fanatics just don't have the intelligence to solve their problems peacefully, or the balls to stand face to face with real fighting men.
Please tell me more about how terrorists are just poor, misunderstood victims with no other recourse.
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As much as I'd like to believe that myself, I find that to be a pretty ridiculous thing to say.
What he is saying is that the way you define terrorist isn't simple black and white - and I agree, you can't say a person is "evil or good" without realizing that is your view, not necessarily everyone's.
Aside from that though, saying they don't have balls to fight like men? Yeah, I'd really like to stand out there in front of the #1 military in teh world and get my ass shot off. If i want to inflict damage, I'd find the best way to do it be it car bombs or suicide bombs. I hate to say it, but it takes balls to kill one's own self for my beliefs.
Beheading someone is cowardly though I'll defenitely agree. But suicide bombing? If only people had enough passion as they do for constructive reasons and for the good of humans. But alas, their passion is in the wrong area.
And I'd say they're pretty intelligent - heck, most of the terrorists of 9/11 were of the upper class elite from say Saudi Arabia.
Their means may not be "smart" to make a good response, but to say they didn't plan something that was surreal and almost something out of sci-fi - that'd be an understatement. What they did was a brilliant move no one would have expected. Problem is, they fucked with the wrong country.