03-04-2005, 10:41 PM
TaiDaishar,Mar 4 2005, 10:20 AM Wrote:The goal of terrorism is not to kill, it's to create terror, thus those letters are from terrorists simply because they created terror, they might or might not try to act upon their threats but that's irrelevent.
On topic: I'm still quite clueless about this, anyone found a good source for this story?
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Tai, IIRC you live in Israel. I am puzzled at your description of terror.
The aim of a terrorist is to make a policital and social change through force, and the threat of credible force. Terror uses both physical and psychological means to its ends. The credible force is demonstrated in bloody forms to ensure that the terrorist is taken seriously. The aim of killing some explicit targets is implicit to most terrorism, but since terrorist organizations differ in both discipline and scope, as well as goal, it is too much to say that killing is or is not the aim of "terrorists" in general. In some cases you could call it a means, in others an express aim. 17 Novermber in Greece, anyone?
OBL has gone on record with rhetoric saying that All Americans must die. Some of the terrorist organs who aim at forcing change in your country have a goal of wiping Israel from the map. That means killing off a lot of Israeli's, for the express purpose of cleansing the land of "those who we don't want in this place."
Enough. I risk creating a very ugly sub thread if I say anymore.
Occhi
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In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete