Quote Originally Posted by Montmorency View Post
Disagree.



Agree.
I take it you didn't mean to agree and disagree with the same quote.

What I'm saying is that considering sanctions as terrorism tells us nothing, since any policy that resuls in major economic loss, intimidates a population, and creates a compulsion for a government to alter its policies is by definition terrorism. Yes, yes, we get it - the US is the greatest terrorist-nation in the history of the world, so what?
So nothing in practical terms.

Understanding you're not the "right side" but simply the "other side" is very important for this discussion

Yes. Even if the US had somehow done absolutely nothing overt to so much as influence any Muslim-majority country up to the new millenium, major attacka by one organization or another would still have been planned against large American targets, up to and including targets on the mainland.
I'd disagree.

Terrorism is a reaction. Why aren't other western nations attacked? Why isn't Brazil attacked by the middle eastern terrorist organizations? Or Argentina or Norway? It would be interesting if someone would make a list of countries totally non-involved in the middle east in any way and count the number of attacks on them by middle eastern terrorist organizations and then compare with countries that were involved. I think most people would be surprised.