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To: epicure who wrote (2523)	8/3/2005 12:56:28 AM
From: TimF	Respond to of 542059

Interesting point, however military supremacy is often achieved by destroying the opponents morale, in effect crushing them emotionally. Its easier, and less brutal, than just killing them all or killing, wounding, or capturing almost all of them. Maneuver rather than grinding it out in the trenches. Not all terrorists are suicide bombers. "Shock and awe", rather than WWI. I like the deliberately aimed at civilians point more myself. But again there is overlap and gray areas. All of the gray doesn't mean that black and white doesn't exist. Some attacks are clearly terrorism, while others are not. The destruction of the World Trade Center towers was clearly terrorism. The US defending south Korea from an invading North Korean army was not. The 9/11 attack on the Pentagon, and some of the mass bombings of WWII are gray. (Gray only in terms of fitting the definition of terrorism. I would not say the attack on the pentagon was gray in a moral sense. I would call it black. The WWII mass bombings might be gray. For example the nuclear bombings were an attempt to end the war and may have saved lives indirectly.)