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Originally posted by jaguar
And who is a terrorist is highly subjective, I’m sure the British thought those who started the American Civil war were terrorists....(yes I cannot name any, my American history is rather weak)
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It's not THAT subjective. Since a) it was the Revolutionary War and b) they're not sure who fired the first shot, but evidence points to the British and c) they'd been terrorizing the colonists for quite some time. The men who fought that war on our side were fighting their government to overthrow it and form a new one. I would say this differs from a terrorist attack in the sense that a) only soldiers were getting killed and b) we were fighting our government, not some people in a far away land that had absolutely NOTHING to do with us.
Now, I know you're thinking "Afghanistan". But you can save your typing hands on that one. 'Cause we're not going to be killing for the purpose of killing civilians. We are going to be going after someone that has helped finance and perpetrate an attack on innocent civilians of some 60 countries. If the evidence that's floating around now is true, I'd say that's pretty compelling that bin Laden's organization was involved. And how do you keep these cells from operating? Choke off their life blood. And that's what bin Laden is.