| Over coffee that attitude furthers your argument against war, but in a more public venue it just makes terrorists feel their acts are just as legitimate as anyone else's. |
Oh no, don't get me wrong, an active terrorist is only good when dead, without question...
It is a crime making use of murder as a means to achieve a goal. But legitimizing terrorism with a label such as "War On Terrorism" raising them above their station in the schema of things. They are no long a group of murdering gooks but are now a force to be reckoned with.
Odd thing is, we turned out back on that War on Terror to go into Iraq. Which posed no emanate threat to the USA and had nothing to do with the terrorists attack on 9/11.
Anyone have any idea just how many home grown terrorist groups set bombs, rob banks, stash illegal weapons, convert semi to fully auto, build bombs and so on in the USA over the period of a year?
I watched a special about the Christian Identity movement, and the FBI rep stated that there was at least 4000 murders on down to basic theft of explosive materials each year directly connected to such groups and it was on a rise. That was a year ago, but I would be interested to know the numbers now...
Up until the point that someone takes upon them self the idea that the only means of giving momentum to a religious, political or social goal is to pick up a weapon or strap a bomb on and start killing people, then they are someone who can be shown other possible paths to a mutual goal or at least as close to a mutually acceptable goal as they might reach. Once they take force as the path then they are dead man walking and the faster someone makes em a martyr the better...
