I think it's terror-ible.

It’s been said that one man’s ‘terrorist’ is another man’s freedom fighter. Take the 9/11 attack on America. Yes, by terrorists. Despicable. No doubt about it. The loss of about 3,000 lives of innocent people. But when America launches a preemptive war on Iraq – well, we’re freedom fighters. Liberating a nation. Doesn’t matter that tens of thousands of innocent women and children and other non-combatants are killed in the process. We just write it off as a casualty of war. Collateral damage. But I wonder if war itself is basically an act of terrorism. The idea is to bomb the hell out of a country. Punish our so-called enemy. Which we may well deem terrorists. And if we more or less destroy the country’s infrastructure and leave the economy reeling, it’s just one of those things. The price to be paid for ‘liberating’ people. Doesn’t matter, either, if we end a war with Japan, for instance, by dropping two atomic bombs. Setting an all-time record for a single day massacre of innocents in a war. But that ain’t terrorism because the victors are never terrorists. Yes, they are freedom fighters. Odd thing is that so many, many of the modern-day ‘terrorists’ think that the real terrorists are Americans – the American government, that is. So they retaliate. And we retaliate. And they retaliate. And we retaliate. On and on and on. I think it’s terror-ible. –Jim Broede