They may consider themselves to be defenders - whether of faith or country or whatever, but placing bombs in cars and targetting innocent civilians is an attack and worthy of being called terrorism. They are attempting to influence events by inspiring terror in a populace. As for whether or not we are getting “accurate answers” is entirely a separate issue and irrelevant to the labels that can be used to describe certain activities. If we are deliberately (and in the minds of many, unintentionally) attacking civilians then it is murder, pure and simple.
John Stroebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And how do we KNOW who they are attacking...or if they even ARE attaching anyone? Maybe they are defending themselves. How do we know? How do we know who is and who ain't attacking the civilians? Seems lately there is a lot of evidence that WE are doing exactly that. SO how do we know? By listening to Fox News? Tony Snow? Bush? reading tea leaves would give us more accurate answers... On 6/20/06, Cory Nott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would base it largely upon whom they are attacking. If they are > attacking civilians, then they are terrorists. If they are attacking US or > Iraqi troops, then they are insurgents. > > One can actually be rational about this and not resort to ad hominems. > This is a libertarian list, not a Republican or Democrat list where > everything must be couched in partisan terms and the other side is always > wrong. > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/yHUd1C/hOaOAA/cUmLAA/KlSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ForumWebSiteAt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
