posted on Mar, 10 2003 @ 07:26 AM
dictionary definitions:
Source: The Collins English Dictionary
terrorism [trrzm]
n.
1. systematic use of violence and intimidation to achieve some goal.
2. the act of terrorizing.
3. the state of being terrorized.
terrorist [trrst]
n.
a. a person who employs terror or terrorism, esp as a political weapon.
b. (as modifier): terrorist tactics.
When we're talking about the palistinian terrorists, to say its about money is a bit simplistic. Palistine has no effective military and their land
is being invaded. Now, i do not agree with them targeting civillians but try to see it from this perspective:
I hear the phrase "you'll take my gun out of my cold dead hands" etc from a lot of americans when they are talking about gun control laws. What if
it was your land that was under threat, and you had no guns? I'm sure you would be willing to fight to the death for your country. As we all know
modern warfare mainly involves strikes from the air and heavily armoured vehicles and tanks. What if you had none? You'd try and hit them at home
with whatever method you had, right?
The Palistinian suicide bombers are mostly young people in their early 20's with the same fears and desires as all of us, and they have plently of
reasons to live, and more not to die just for money for their families. They do it out of sheer desperation and love for their country, which i'm
sure any patriotic american can understand.
We never try and cure the source of the problems, only the resultant actions which only serves to enflame the people more, give the real terrorists
more ammunition to call people to them and create more 'terrorists'. This is what will happen when we invade Iraq. The terrorists will have more
'evidence' of what they portray as a war on Islam, more people will join them, and a lot of ordinary people outwith the terrorists groups will
belive them and hate the west more.