Originally posted by TheFallibleFiend:
DA, I know there are many people who agree with you. This is beyond a discussion of science; however, that is not what terrorism is. Terrorists focus attacks mainly on civilians. What you have stated is childish nonsense.
DA is 100% right. What he said is certainly not nonsense. Terrorism is defined by us in such a way that what we do is not terrorism and what our opponents do is terrorism (or something else with a negative designation).
In the Cold War the US and the Soviet Union were prepaired to vaporize each other cities killing a few hundred million people. This attitude could not be justified by the underlying political disputes. The Soviet Union, at least, had a no ''first use of nuclear weapons'' policy. The US still hasn't ruled out first use of nukes.
What's the difference between Nixon threatening the Soviet Union with nuclear annihilation in case Brezhnev didn't back down from his plans to help Egypt in the Yom Kippur war and some Al Qa'ida members killing 200 people in Spain because Spain was involved in the Iraq war?
