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Originally Posted by Charlatan
You know what? Yes. Those actions were terrorist attacks.
Again, the problem some are having here is that the meaning of the word terrorist has been so bruised and beaten that to label these as terrorist actions suggests that those doing the labelling must fall into the same old tired "good vs. evil", "with us or against us" binary oppositions that control the terrorist discourse at present.
I refuse to look at it as black and white. There is always more to it than that.
The OP verges on (but stays just shy of) being a troll.
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I know your perspective won't allow you to see this which is why you think its troll like, but the OP's post has really opened my eyes as to why politics is so much pissing in the wind as of late.
If you can't call a terrorist a terrorist without hand wringing about the term, how the hell can we talk about the best policy to deal with terrorists when apparently we don't have any terrorists.
Shades of grey my lilly white, you bomb a school, you blow up a disco, you destroy a hotel, you are a terrorist. No 'abuse' of the word changes that.