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Powerclown,
With your explanations, I personally don't see your OP as a troll. This is the kind of communicating I like to read - where we try to understand why people feel differently to the way that we do, especially when their views seem incomprehensible.
I don't know if I'm liberal or conservative these days. However, I do know that I'm one of the people who resists black-and-white and doesn't like labels like terrorism. I like to think about motivations for the people who do things that we call terrorism. For me this is not an expression of liberal or conservative values - it's just interacting with the world around me in a realistic way.
In my opinion, if we don't make an effort to understand the dynamics of terrorism, the war on terror is nothing more than trying to kill "them" faster than they kill us. A real "war on terror" would address the factors that motivate such a violent expression of anger/frustration/desparation/whatever so that we wouldn't be seeing more people popping up all the time.
As I said before, I just don't think the term terrorist is very useful in those terms. It's a word that really shuts all of that kind of thinking down - the way "communist" did in the 1950's. On the other hand I do see that there are lots of people who don't want to talk about that stuff. For these people it's way more "us vs. them". I see that, but I don't really grok it. If that's what your thread is about, I'm very interested in reading you thoughts and those of others who don't agree with me.
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