A terrorist is a person who intends to harm innocents in order to bring a negative effect on his enemy. A terrorist group encourages some or all of its members to use this strategy. The strategy works.
Terrorist events disorient societies by spreading fear among friends, families, or similar others who could be targeted. The fear is exacerbated by the fact that we have no way of knowing who will be hit, by whom, how it will occur, when or where to expect the attack. When the terrorist is ghost like it adds to the scary effect. The cummulative effect of not knowing the source or where or when it will surface, but that the event could be devastating, is a paranoid psychosis that is contagious.
The worst thing we could do is to act our our paranoid psychosis by attacking innocents who look like the ghosts. The smartest thing we could do would be to bring the innocents into our circle by declaring the terrorists to be a common enemy. So only the ghost like terrorists remain on the outside, then they have no place to hide and their camouflage becomes transparent.
Terrorist is the perfect word for what they do. Who they are affiliated with by history, culture, ethnicity, or demographic is irrelevant except as a means to gather intel.
Brianthebiker and some others play into the terrorist's hands and empower them by declaring the innocents who may resemble or have some loose affiliation as one and the same. I don't fear the terrorists either, but I know what they are up to and the best way to deal with that is to confront it straight on for what it is. I will link brian to this post so's to remind him that I don't fear his insideous tactics either. |
