Re: How is it terrorism when they kill soldiers?
Enforcing despotic laws is terrorism? I thought that was despotism... Isn't terrorism quite restricted to killing/scaring civilian populations?Originally Posted by Crazed Rabbit
Many thanks
So all this talk about "dying for your country" is all a scam?
Still maintain that crying on the pitch should warrant a 3 match ban
Re: How is it terrorism when they kill soldiers?
I see the point you're making, and there's some truth in it. Two armed groups going at each other is difficult to classify as "terrorism." It might be what the U.S. military calls "asymmetrical warfare," though. The calling card of real terrorism is that the targets tend to be non-military, such as blowing up a vegetable market in Kirkuk.
No, not a scam; soldiers who fall in the line of duty really have died for their country. But that's never the goal, you see. You want to make the other guy die for his, as Patton put it.So all this talk about "dying for your country" is all a scam?
Re: How is it terrorism when they kill soldiers?
In-deedeli-doodely. I mean, it's not too different from what the resistance movement did here during the war, the real difference is simply advances in warfare(excluding when targeting civilians, of course). Blowing up enemy soldiers, police stations, assassinating natives who work with occupiers, etc etc, it was all done here during the war, and I'm sorry, but I don't really feel like calling our resistance movement terrorists...
Still maintain that crying on the pitch should warrant a 3 match ban
Re: How is it terrorism when they kill soldiers?
I thought you had to join the army to become a soldier?
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
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Re: How is it terrorism when they kill soldiers?
So.... All guerillas are terrorists in your opinion? Why do we then have words like "resistance movement" and "guerillas"? Is it all part of the big liberal plot to make the church accept gays?I thought you had to join the army to become a soldier?
Still maintain that crying on the pitch should warrant a 3 match ban
Re: How is it terrorism when they kill soldiers?
Oh dear a strawman.
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.
"The purpose of a university education for Left / Liberals is to attain all the politically correct attitudes towards minorties, and the financial means to live as far away from them as possible."
Re: How is it terrorism when they kill soldiers?
I agree, targeting soldiers is not terrorism.
As for your thoughts on soldiering a certain Orwell quote comes to mind but I can't bring myself to be that cliche or elementary.
There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
Re: How is it terrorism when they kill soldiers?
Did they target civilians (say, by throwing acid at them)? The Taliban does things like that. Just because they killed some soldiers does not make them less of terrorists - they are still a terrorist group.
Re: How is it terrorism when they kill soldiers?
As we say here in norway; now's the time to separate snot from mustaches(yess, that's a saying). In the news, they've said that the soldier died in a terrorist attack. Not "killed by a terrorist". The attack itself was terrorism. And I can't see how that can be true, as this was an attack targeted specifically at foreign soldiers, it was not targeted at civilians, nor was it random in any way.
Still maintain that crying on the pitch should warrant a 3 match ban
Re: How is it terrorism when they kill soldiers?
You're just arguing semantics.
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.
"The purpose of a university education for Left / Liberals is to attain all the politically correct attitudes towards minorties, and the financial means to live as far away from them as possible."
Re: How is it terrorism when they kill soldiers?
I'm annoyed, so yes.
Still maintain that crying on the pitch should warrant a 3 match ban
Re: How is it terrorism when they kill soldiers?
HoreTore, here is the definition I found on Wiki:
An attack by a combatant who is not part of the regular army attacking a force which is essentially trying to be a stabilizing force could be interpreted as 1 or 2.Terrorism is, most simply, policy intended to intimidate or cause terror. It is more commonly understood as an act which (1) is intended to create fear (terror), (2) is perpetrated for an ideological goal (as opposed to a materialistic goal or a lone attack), and (3) deliberately targets (or disregards the safety of) non-combatants.
Re: How is it terrorism when they kill soldiers?
So.... The norwegian resistance movement were terrorists after all?
Still maintain that crying on the pitch should warrant a 3 match ban
Re: How is it terrorism when they kill soldiers?
This definition has three necessary conditions, shown by the use of and just before number 3, instead of the word or. Being possibly interpreted as 1 or 2 is not enough; it must be demonstrated to be 1, 2, and 3 to count as terrorism by this definition. An attack aimed exclusively at soldiers, even if committed by a terrorist, is not in itself an act of terrorism. I agree with HoreTore: it was inaccurate and possibly deceptive use of language.
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