Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [OT] facism gaining ground in US

[Pierce T . Wetter III]

> > > > > > > "Pierce" == Pierce T Wetter, <Pierce> writes:
> >
> >     Pierce>   I think that Terrorism is Terrorizing _a_ people by the
> >     Pierce> use of violence is terrorism, but I'm just being nitpicky.
> >
> > No, you're not.  You're awfully close to Wikipedia, definition 1,
> > which _is_ useful.  The points the first definition lacks are that
> > terrorism (a) has no military objective at all
>
> How do you define "military objective"? Is it something that only a 
> state
> can have, and not any other kind of organisation?

 How about _any_ positive objective for the terrorist side?

 What was the 9/11 attack supposed to accomplish? I'm still wondering 
about
that. It really pissed off the US, and it got us involved in something 
they
probably would have been better keeping us out of.

 I don't want to give Osama ideas, but I can probably think of several 
different
things they could have done instead that would have been more effective 
for
their "cause".

 Pierce