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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (1678)	9/30/2001 10:40:11 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

to claim the contras were strictly targeting civilians is RIDICULOUS. They were fighting the Sandinista military primarily along the Honduras-Nicaragua border, and not in Managua, where 25% of the people live. I made no such claim. Even Osama does not strictly target civilians; many of his targets have been military. There is no doubt that many Contra actions were directed at civilians, and involved techniques that we would classify as terrorism if they were directed at us. That is sufficient. The merits or demerits of the Contra and the Sandinistas are not at all germane to my point. If we claim that terrorist tactics are justified under any circumstance, it becomes impossible for us to declare a total war on terrorism. Terrorism does not cease to be terrorism when it is used in pursuit of an admirable goal, and if we reserve the right to use terror in pursuit of goals we think admirable, we must expect others to do the same in pursuit of goals that they think admirable, even though those goals may seem less than admirable to us.