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To: Lane3 who wrote (67371)	9/6/2004 12:37:34 AM
From: unclewest	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793903

The question on the table is whether or not terrorism is ever acceptable. If you're trying to get an answer to that question, then you must frame the hypothetical around terrorism, not some other aspect of warfare. Shooting combatants is not terrorism. Bombing busses is. Whose table? Your little word game is losing luster fast. The situations you describe play to both sides. Bombing a bus is quite OK in war if it is full of combatants. You have missed defining terrorism or terror. Discussing it in the context of many wars fought before the modern rules for warfare and the current world situation AND your little hypothetical situations is an excercise in futility. Your questions are not worth answering because you are not engaging in meaningful discussion. You are just playing games.

To: Lane3 who wrote (67371)	9/6/2004 7:59:40 AM
From: aladin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793903

Karen, Targeting civilians today is not ok. If you want to get into revisionism about WW2 thats a different issue (but let me ask this - was it ok to kill Nazi's?). If they are bombing Cleveland - I might bomb one of their cities - it would depend on the circumstances. But lets say they took over Cleveland - attacking members of the occupying force is not terrorism (its warfare), but attacking their civilians is (heck your female relatives might be in harems). John