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To: TimF who wrote (144180)	4/8/2002 6:02:16 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578346

Tim, oh I see. Its guerrilla warfare when you take out civilians by accident and is a good thing; and terrorism when you kill civilians intentionally, and a bad thing. Conventional warfare also kills civilians. Police kill civilians accidently from time to time. Not all types of violence or war are terrorism. Tim, Webster's seems to disagree with you......the definitions of terror and terrorism: terror- a state of intense fear terrorism-a systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion. Do you think that our bombing Al-Qaeda and Taliban in Afghanistan is terrorism because some civilians got killed? By definition, specifically Webster's definition.......yes. Killing civilians is not a good thing, but if the war itself is fought for good and important reasons, and if great care is taken to avoid killing civilians then it makes no sense to say that accidently killing a few civilians is morally equivilent to terrorism. You didn't outright say that but you are implying it and I think the implication is wrong. Of course, its wrong.....when we drop bombs on people they go with God's blessing and the people/civilians feel no terror so it can't possibly be terrorism by definition. How stupid......what was I thinking. Do you think the choice of terms matter to either civilian who is dead? If your dead, your dead. But murder is different from accidental death, the way terrorism is differnt that accidental deaths caused by conventional or guerilla forces who are trying to avoid civilian deaths. If while I was driving on a mountain road by brakes went out and I ran into someone close to you accidently killing them would you call me a murderer? Would you feel as bad about or angry towards me as if I had went to their house and killed them with a shotgun? Probably not.......but unfortunately, when a Israeli shoots a Palestinian child by accident, the Palestinians do not see that way. The years of conflict and tension between the Israelis and Palestinians have convinced them that are no accidental shootings. ted