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To: TimF who wrote (145198)	4/16/2002 2:02:21 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572678

It 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. Tim, I am unclear why its hard to see that the rounding up of the Jews was a form of terrorism. Nonetheless, I am not able to find any other justification so I will drop the subject. 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. Your distinction between the two is so subtle that I don't see it. If its the targeting aspect, I don't think it made the Afghan civilians feel any better that they weren't the targets and so I don't think they felt any less terror in the bombing of Afghanistan than the Germans did in the bombing of Dresden. ted