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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: tejek who wrote (144964)4/16/2002 1:11:54 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (2) of 1572724
 
t was terrorism that kept some Germans from objecting. You may think that the impact of the horror and terror that went on in Nazi Germany was somehow not as bad as 9/11 and so can't be called terrorism, but I beg to differ...

I don't think that is his point at all. He's not saying it isn't as bad as terrorism, it just is not terrorism. If the moon somehow dropped out of orbit, and hit the earth shattering the planet and wiping out all life on earth that would be worse then terrorism but it wouldn't be terrorism.

I would define terrorism as attacks intentionally targeted at civilians for the purpose of supporting a cause. By that definition the fire bombing of Dresden could be called terrorism, but the bombing of Afghanistan was not terrorism.

Tim
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